Looking for a package maintainer for flam3

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Mon Feb 27 04:33:20 UTC 2012


On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 21:56:44 -0600,
  Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 20:03:26 -0600,
>   Ian Weller <ian at ianweller.org> wrote:
> > I'm looking for a new package maintainer for flam3, a fractal renderer.
> > 
> > I don't use it anymore and don't quite have the time to maintain it. If
> > I recall correctly, there's some libpng bug keeping it from building in
> > rawhide.
> > 
> > If I don't get a volunteer by Wednesday I'm going to go ahead and retire
> > it.
> 
> I have fixed a number of packages to work with libpng 1.5. Usually the
> fixes are pretty simple. If that gets fixed would that be enough for
> you to keep doing the routine stuff?

I took a quick look at it and it looks like it's just one for one
substitutions to use accessor functions instead of references to
provate data.

I have rawhode and f17 builds going right now.

I don't know how to test this, so it would probably be good for you
to test them out to make sure the fix (or something else) didn't
break anything.


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