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Maintainer needed for PGP, and other packages



[ Bruce: to you, because AFAIK, you're still the Leader.
  Sven: You're still keeping track of packages in need of maintainers, right?
]

It's time for me to leave Debian. Effective immediately,
almost all of my packages are abandoned. The important ones
are PGP and the developer's keyring, the others don't really
matter. A list of the packages is included at the end. There's
so few of them that posting this to debian-devel would not be
very useful, and the PGP maintainer will need to be discussed
on debian-private anyway.

If you wish to take over a package, just announce you'll do it.
The BoD (or Bruce, if the BoD is still getting organized)
should decide who'll be taking over PGP.

I will be dropping off most of the lists, but I'll stay on
debian-announce, and maybe debian-changes (more or less like
any user).

A few words in parting, if I may.

I've been using Debian for some years, although I don't remember
exactly when I first installed it. I've never had any really
big problems, and the bug system and the enthusiastic developers
have always solved things nicely when I've been unable to do so
myself. Debian is pleasureable.

In the last year, we've seen Debian grow like an atomic mushroom.
This has caused some problems, which I've ranted about before,
but I'm confident that they can and will be solved. I don't even
feel my input will be necessary for this; I think I've already
said my share. As far as I can see, the future of Debian looks
rosy, after the big short term problems are solved.

I'm sad that I have to leave, but I can't really help it. I'm
too often running on too little sleep, while trying to keep up
with work, studies, hobbies, and feeble attempts at life.  I have
to drop something, and Debian happens to be the easiest one. The
advantage of a large number of developers is that there's always
someone else available to do one's job. :-)

I'm leaving a few things open. For example, the discussions on
quality, my current arguments with Christoph, and my abortive
career as logo designer. Nothing serious, as far as I can
remember. If there's anything of importance, I'm sure you'll
be able to find my mail address somewhere.

If anyone of you ever happens to be in Helsinki, Finland, I'd be
happy to buy you ice cream.


Here's the summary of the packages I maintain.

pgp-i                Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
pgp-us               Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>

	These are critical. They need a maintainer in the free
	world, and he needs to understand about security and
	cryptography. The maintainer also needs to be trusted
	with security issues.
	
	PGP is so critical that you really should know what
	you're doing. Screwing this one up is going to cause
	big problems.
	
http://www.iki.fi/liw/debian/debian-keyring.tar.gz

	This is also pretty critical. It's not particularly tedious,
	if you have a mailer that deals well with PGP. Exmh is good.
	The maintainer would need to follow debian-changes, and
	debian-devel-changes, and check the signature on each package,
	and fetch or ask for missing keys. I haven't written any
	scripts to automate this, since I've been skimming through
	all announcements anyway, and exmh tells me if I have the key
	or not.
	
	The keyring need continous maintaince, but it can be done by
	just about anyone, who reads the lists anyway, and is able to
	check the key servers for missing keys.
	
	Since I won't be reading debian-devel-changes, I won't be
	updating the keyring any more.
	
info2www             Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>

	I've already given away info2www, but I'm still listed
	as the maintainer. I don't remember whom I gave it to,
	and if he doesn't remember either, then we'll have to
	treat it as abandoned.

cfgtool              Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>

	This may or may not be needed. I don't know. I haven't
	had time to follow the debian-admintool list. If there's
	a better tool, existing or upcoming, then cfgtool can
	be dropped. If it isn't dropped, someone should take it
	(and the corresponding C library routines to maintain
	the database in publib-dev), and start maintaining it.
	
	Treat it as abandoned or obsolete.

unclutter            Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>

	This is a simple program to make the mouse cursor vanish
	if it isn't moved for a few seconds, and to bring it
	back if the user touches the mouse. Absolutely essential
	for anyone using focus-follows-mouse, and about zero
	amount of maintaince needed.
	
	Treat it as abandoned.

liwc                 Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
publib-dev           Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
sex                  Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>

	These are my own programs, and I will continue to
	maintain the Debian packages, unless I happen to switch
	to Red Hat or FreeBSD. I may or may not be uploading
	the packages to master; I don't know yet.

-- 
Please read <http://www.iki.fi/liw/mail-to-lasu.html> before mailing me.


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