SyncEvolution for Debian: new maintainer needed

Submitted by Patrick Ohly, updated on 30 Apr 2011 - 03:07 - 6 comments

David Bremner, the Debian packager of SyncEvolution, announced that he is looking for a new maintainer to take over that package. If you care about SyncEvolution in Debian and Ubuntu, then please consider taking over.

On this occasion let me thank David Bremner for getting SyncEvolution into Debian and for maintaining it there.

Comments (6 total)

Maintainer needed

Submitted by Aparte on 1 May, 2011 - 01:11.

Hi Patrick,

I care a lot about SyncEvolution and Ubuntu because I've been unable to use my Palm Pre+ for more than 1 year. I refuse to synchronize through the Cloud and I use Ubuntu.

I would gladly put time but I'm really a newbie in Unix/Ubuntu. I can always learn, but I don't have the slightest idea of what "debian maintainer" means. Just tell me if my good will is of any help here.

What is a Debian maintainer?

Submitted by Patrick Ohly on 2 May, 2011 - 07:33.

A Debian maintainer is someone who is allowed to update SyncEvolution in Debian. I'm afraid if you didn't know what a Debian maintainer is, then you are probably not yet qualified to become one ;-) Seriously, this is a task which requires solid technical skills and certain expertise. Good will helps to acquire these skills, but there are probably other, more suitable tasks.

If you are willing to tackle some of these, then I can point you towards tasks in SyncEvolution which may be easy enough to solve without too much background knowledge.

Have you found a maintainer?

Submitted by Diane on 22 August, 2011 - 20:28.

How goes the search for a new maintainer?

Also is there a repository with a debianized 1.1.99.6 source tree? I'm trying to build it myself using the debian config from 1.1. Debuild is eating the root Makefile.am/.in and not properly regenerating it. And when I dodge that with fakeroot debian/rules binary, dpkg-shlibdeps is having trouble finding the library.

Before making any offers about helping, I want to make sure I can actually do it.

Diane

Yes

Submitted by Tino on 5 September, 2011 - 10:11.

Hi Diane,

as you might have seen already, I took over the Debian maintainership and 1.1.99.5 packages are now in unstable.

If you still have any issues with the packaging, just ask.

Tino Keitel is helping with Debian packaging

Submitted by Patrick Ohly on 22 August, 2011 - 21:37.

Tino Keitel is helping with the Debian packaging. As far as I know, he is not a Debian developer and the actual package uploads are done via David. I'm sure he would appreciate help with packaging and testing of the resulting packages. I suggest that you ping him on the SyncEvolution mailing list.

Ok thank you.

Submitted by Diane on 22 August, 2011 - 21:58.

Ok thank you.