[Fceultra-discuss] FCEUX and Debian

[Alexander T. <ale...@gm...>]

Hello,

As you may know, I've been trying to get FCEUX into Debian for a
while. Joe Nahmias, the maintainer of FCEU in Debian, has filed an ITP
(Intent To Package) for FCEUX, in February 2011:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612245 .
I have been trying to get FCEUX into Debian and been in contact with
Joe since 2009, as until recently I was aiming to make FCEUX an
automatic upgrade from FCEU, and then it was logical to go through Joe
and the already existing FCEU package, and I didn't file any ITP.
When I learned that he had filed one, I contacted him and asked him if
he still wanted to package FCEUX, as 1.5 years had gone with no
updates to the ITP. His response was: "Yes, I have had discussions
with one of the upstream authors about some changes that needed to
happen in order to make that possible.". I replied, asking what these
changes were, but I've received no reply from him, and now it's been
10 days. I'm not aware of any issues myself, but having an established
Debian developer state that there are issues probably makes it quite
harder for me to find a "sponsor" (a sponsor is a debian developer
that uploads the package for you, I need one as I'm not a debian
developer myself). I've searched the mailing list archives, but
haven't found anything, so this discussion has probably been off-list.

So, what I would like to ask you is: has Joe Nahmias been in contact
with anyone of you regarding packaging FCEUX for Debian, and what did
you discuss?

Sorry for the wall of text. A good TL;DR is the last paragraph.

// Alexander