On 2012-07-11 19:47, Robin Gareus wrote:
>
> That depends from maintainer to maintainer and was one of the
> reasons the debian-pkg-maintainers umbrella has been created.
>
> The current state of frei0r and freeJ in debian is indeed dismal
> at best. Great to hear that IOhannes took the initiative. Jonas
> already jumped onto it. If more man-power is needed I'm happy to
> contribute as well.

thanks robin for the heads up.

so i contacted luca, and got the following:

On 2012-07-11 18:48, Luca Bigliardi wrote:
> Hi Iohannes,
>
> I'll be happy if frei0r and freej packages will get a new
> maintainer.
>
> Please note that around Februrary Jonas Smedegaard <dr@???>
asked to
> jump in and work on frei0r packages. You might want to get in
contact with
> him to avoid duplicating efforts.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luca
>


i also contacted pkg-multimedia to see what they think of atking over
frei0r and freej and got the following response from jonas (the full
conversaition is at [1]).


On 2012-07-11 19:37, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On 12-07-11 at 07:03pm, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>> [...] i would like to maintain those packages under the umbrella
>> of the pkg-multimedia-team. [...]
>
> Yesss!
>
> I have a git for frei0r (from my NMU in february). I'll dust it
> off
and
> push it!
>
> I also look at freej a while back (if I recall correctly I even
> looked at it before it was put into Debian).
>
> I'd be happy to work with you on those, IOhannes.
>

so it seems that now we have some people that are willing to really
maintain these packages in debian.


fmgasdr
IOhannes








[1]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2012-July/028354.html