Looking for new package owners

Vasile Gaburici vgaburici at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 19:03:59 UTC 2008


It looks like metafont failed to produce output. Maybe you're in for a
check from DEK :)
Granted, mftrace could do something less abrupt than dump a stack trace.

warning: mf: command exited with value 32512 (ignored)
Metafont failed.  Excerpt from the log file:


On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm not familiar with lilypond, but that page you linked is 404...
>
> Sorry, typed from another monitor, and I fat-fingered it:
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=789014
>
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I can take autotrace and mftrace. I'm about to package more font
>>>> generation tools, i.e. mf2pt1 and metatype1. But I have yet to be
>>>> sponsored, so it will take a while...
>>>
>>> Thanks Quentin!
>>>
>>> Vasile, my koji devel build of lilypond dies during an mftrace step.  Do
>>> you have any insight?  Might mftrace need a rebuild?  A newer version is
>>> available anyway. . .
>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskingo?taskID=789014
>>>
>>>> fig2ps should probably be left in the cold, there much better options
>>>> for making drawings in/for LaTeX these days. Besides the rpm dates
>>>> back to fc7.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Deji Akingunola <dakingun at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> It's becoming clear to me that I lack the time to maintain all of my
>>>>>> packages, as there are a few outstanding bug reports that I'm just
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> getting to. I think it's time to hand off some or all of my packages
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> new
>>>>>> maintainers. The following is the list of my current packages.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> atlas
>>>>>> autotrace
>>>>>> cln
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll take 'atlas' and 'cln' .
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Deji
>>>>>
>>>>>> fig2ps
>>>>>> fftw
>>>>>> ginac
>>>>>> glpk
>>>>>> lilypond
>>>>>> lilypond-doc
>>>>>> mftrace
>>>>>> octave
>>>>>> octave-forge
>>>>>> suitesparse
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some of these are really easy, but two of them could be somewhat
>>>>>> challenging. Octave-forge is getting big and ugly, and it really
>>>>>> needs
>>>>>> to be
>>>>>> split into about 40 subpackages (which could be done incrementally,
>>>>>> rather
>>>>>> than all at once). Atlas is more or less working but it is really
>>>>>> outdated,
>>>>>> and it would probably require almost starting from scratch to package
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> new 3.8.x releases.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Quentin
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
>>>
>>
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>
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