On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 12:50 AM Ben Pfaff <blp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 9:21 AM Zack Weinberg <zackw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I believe that these packages would be suitable for experimental, > > and/or as a basis for the eventual upload of 2.70 to unstable, but I > > don't have the privileges to upload anything to the Debian archive. > > I'm cc:ing the Debian maintainer of autoconf -- Ben, if you would like > > to check and adopt my work, please feel free. > > Zack, thanks so much for doing all this work. > > Over the last few years, I've been slowly drifting away from Debian. > Package maintenance no longer holds too much interest for me. This > hasn't been a big deal for the Autoconf packaging for Debian, since > it's needed very little work. But now that a new major release is coming > out, it might be time to pass the torch to someone who is more active > and interested. I've been the Debian maintainer of it for almost 23 years, > after all, so maybe it's time to give someone a chance anyway. > > Are you interested? (Is anyone else here?) I appreciate the thought, but I think this package needs to be maintained in Debian by someone a lot more deeply involved with Debian than me. It's been my distro of choice for many years and I know how to construct a package, but I'm not in the keyring and I don't follow the project's plans very closely. zw
