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Re: dpkg/dselect development

Ian Jackson writes:

> I think this is an excellent idea.  Klee, you have the job.  
> If you don't want to deal with certain difficult technical issues feel free
> to farm them out, but particularly with the separation of the
> dependency-checking code I'd like to have a veto over the choice of
> implementor.

Great!  Glad to hear it.  I'll post a list of my plans and current
priorities for dpkg/dselect early next week for debate.  I plan to
spend the rest of the weekend closing out bugs against my current
packages so I can start the job with a clean slate, and so I can take
some time to go through the old mailing-list discussions and bug list
to get a better sense of the current state of affairs.

I'd appreciate it if anyone currently working on projects related to
dpkg/dselect would send me a short description of what they're working
on and how far they've gotten, as well as things they might be
interested in working on and any appropriate qualifications they might
have.

I have no problem giving you (Ian) veto power over the choice of
implementor for the separation of the dependency routines into a
separate library.  My guess is that I'm going to end up doing that
part myself, but I'd be happy to receive offers from anyone else who
might be interested.

With your permission, I'd also like to (at least in the beginning)
send a short summary of any code changes I plan to make (even minor
ones) for your review, so I can make sure that I'm not missing any
design assumptions or subtleties that might not be immediately
apparent from the code.  Does that sound reasonable to you, at least
in the beginning?

> BTW, you said that you'd emailed Bruce to ask his permission to email
> me - I'd have been quite happy to have been emailed straight away ...

Sorry about that; I hope I didn't offend.  I wasn't sure of the
politics involved, so I figured I'd check with him first to make sure
it was OK.  Don't worry --- you can expect to be getting a lot of
direct E-mail from me in the near future.  :-).

Thanks,
- Klee
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