Re: Bug#568303: can-utils Debian package

["Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>]

Hello Alexander, hello *,

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 07:39:51PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 08:02:07PM +0400, Alexander GQ Gerasiov wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 15 January 2014 12:40:52 you wrote:
> > > > I've notice some progress on the issue:
> > > > 
> > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568303
> > > > 
> > > > If Alexander won't post anything to this bug, where can I find the
> > > > package archives, he was talking about?
> > > 
> > > He was talking about collab-maint:
> > > 
> > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/can-modules.git;a=summary
> > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/can-utils.git;a=summary
> > > 
> > > Anyone can join collab-maint, you don't need to be Debian developer.
> > > It would be good if you two coordinate. CCing Alexander therefore.
> > 
> > I'm in heavy reformatting package from the link above. (Only can-utils,
> > cause I use vanilla kernel's modules.)
> I started creating a debian package from scratch, too, before being
> aware of this bug. My plan was to sent the ITP bug once the package is
> ready together with an RFS (as I'm only DM).
>  
> > Right now I've asked my college to make clean-room rewrite of some
> > lines in slcand.c, because it has licensing issues. (Mix of GPL and
> > GFDL licensed code.)
> This is resolved upstream in commit
> 393a91c7d8f6 (slcand: reimplement daemonize routine).
> 
> > I think I'll do an upload this week or the next one. If you have any
> > ideas or want to join packaging on alioth, you're welcome. But please
> > contact me prior any work, because current version on alioth is very
> > different from one I'm working on. (And because of many changes I don't
> > see a reason to upload broken state into git repo right now.)
> I'll rebase my packaging stuff, fixup for the latest changes and will
> let you know. Maybe we can work together then and pick the best things
> from both approaches.
I finished my packaging stuff nearly a month ago and contacted Alexander
by private mail without response so far. My efforts are available at

	http://git.pengutronix.de/?p=ukl/can-utils.git debian/sid

I'd like to get forward here. @Alexander: Maybe you can provide me with
the work you did already, then I'll merge our approaches. Are you still
interested in co-maintainance of can-utils? If not, are you OK when I
take ownership of this bug and start looking for a sponsor?

Best regards
Uwe

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