[specimen] Debian patches

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 09:14:56AM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> 
> > I am aware of the debian patches, and also that the debian package has
> > been orphaned.
> 
> I was thinking of adopting it myself  :-). 

I would actually be more comfortable having one or more co-maintainers.

> I recently became the
> maintaitner of libsndfile and libsamplerate.

I noticed that. :)

> > I'm sorry I haven't given specimen any attention. But, I
> > am thinking of adopting the debian package sometime soon under the
> > pkg-multimedia-maintainers team.
> 
> Looking throught the orphaned packages list there are a  number of packages
> of a multimedia/pro-audio nature than could be adopted by such a group.

Yes. There are about 10 I have just on my own system that are either
orphaned or RFA'ed. I'm going to start with specimen and phat before
committing to others. I'm fairly new to packaging work and not yet a DD
or DM.

If you are interested, the multimedia packagers group could definitely
use more members. There is currently a shortage of DDs and DMs who can
sponsor uploads or upload their own packages.

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia

> FOr instance it would make sense for whoever adopts specimen to also
> adopt phat which speciment depends on.

Which I do intend to do. specimen is the only app in debian using it.

-edrz