anyone interested in tpb? (was Re: No more MAKEDEV?)

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 11:49 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:28:34 -0400
> > ivazqueznet at gmail.com (Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams) wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 17:41 -0700, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >> > The only user of it in Fedora is udev...
> >>
> >> tpb as well.
> >
> > Hi there... I am the current maintainer for tpb, but I no longer use a
> > thinkpad day to day, so I haven't done much with this package of late.
> >
> > tpb upstream had been dead for a long time, but there is some activity
> > now this year.
> >
> > Would anyone care to take over tpb? Or does anyone even use it these
> > days? Perhaps we can just drop it?
> >
> > Let me know and I will be happy to release it...
> 
> We use them at work. I'll take it if no one else speaks up.
> 

I've been using it, but it's gotten a bit quirky with some of the
infrastructure changes that have been occurring.  I'd like to see it
updated and maintained, but I don't have the skills to do it myself.
I'm happy to help test, tough.


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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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