[Pkg-octave-devel] RFS: lesstif2

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Paul Gevers <paul at climbing.nl> writes:

> I am looking for a thorough check of my packaging and preferably a
> sponsor for the new version 1:0.95.2-1. The new upstream version is only
> the incorporation of a lot of patches already incorporated in the
> current version of lesstif2 in Debian. The packaging has been updated as
> well (changelog at the bottom of this mail [4]).

Thank you very much for taking lesstif2 on!  I'd definitely prefer to
see it stay in the archive; although Vibrant is based on an abstraction
layer (so that it can also support native Microsoft and Apple graphics
APIs), porting it to a more modern toolkit would still likely be fairly
involved, and I'd rather not relegate it and its reverse dependency
njplot to contrib (as a switch to OpenMotif would entail).

As such, I'd be happy to review and if all goes well sponsor your
changes (which sound good at first glance) when I get a chance.  That
said, I have limited time for Debian work these days, so I'd greatly
appreciate if somebody else could step up (though I understand that I'm
far from the only busy DD).

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