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Source: fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont
Version: 1.6.50-3
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: Debian OpenStack <[email protected]>, Thomas
Goirand <[email protected]>, Michal Arbet <[email protected]>, Ivan
Udovichenko <[email protected]>
Following the procedure in the Debian Developers Reference, section
5.12, I intend to salvage this package, as mentioned in
https://bugs.debian.org/973617
The reasons are as follows:
* Bug #973617, requesting an updated version, has had no response
from a maintainer/uploader of the package in over two years.
* The current upstream version of the package (1.6.50) was uploaded to
Debian experimental in 2020, but was already about 4 years out of
date at that point; that version was released on May 16, 2016.
Upstream tends to release a new version every 4-8 weeks, containing
about 100 new icons each time.
* There have been no package uploads since May 2020.
* As noted in that bug report, there are also DFSG issues with the
current package, and there has been no reponse to this either.
* There have been no objections raised to my proposal to upload a new
version of the package with major changes (see the details in that
bug report).
I intend to take over the package as sole maintainer, but would be
happy to do this as part of a team (for example, the pkg-fonts team,
though this is quite a special font that does not fit neatly into that
team's remit).
I have not quite followed the salvaging process exactly, as I have
already uploaded a version of the package to the delayed queue (as
noted in the other bug report), but I have not changed the name of the
maintainer yet.
Best wishes,
Julian
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On 1/1/23 11:22, Julian Gilbey wrote:
Following the procedure in the Debian Developers Reference, section
5.12, I intend to salvage this package, as mentioned in
https://bugs.debian.org/973617
The reasons are as follows:
* Bug #973617, requesting an updated version, has had no response
from a maintainer/uploader of the package in over two years.
* The current upstream version of the package (1.6.50) was uploaded to
Debian experimental in 2020, but was already about 4 years out of
date at that point; that version was released on May 16, 2016.
Upstream tends to release a new version every 4-8 weeks, containing
about 100 new icons each time.
* There have been no package uploads since May 2020.
* As noted in that bug report, there are also DFSG issues with the
current package, and there has been no reponse to this either.
* There have been no objections raised to my proposal to upload a new
version of the package with major changes (see the details in that
bug report).
Hi Julian,
Thanks for your attempt to contribute, but a permission to upload is in
NO WAY a permission to take-over the package.
I intend to take over the package as sole maintainer, but would be
happy to do this as part of a team (for example, the pkg-fonts team,
though this is quite a special font that does not fit neatly into that
team's remit).
You do not have my permission to do this. I am the maintainer of this
package because it is needed by the OpenStack dashboard (ie: Horizon). I
would like to continue to have this package maintained within the
OpenStack team for this reason.
I have not quite followed the salvaging process exactly, as I have
already uploaded a version of the package to the delayed queue (as
noted in the other bug report), but I have not changed the name of the
maintainer yet.
Please cancel this upload (dcut rm). The procedure is that you should
first open the ITS, and then wait for at least a month to be able to
take over the package, if there's no opposition from the maintainer.
1/ You didn't wait at all
2/ I am hereby refusing that you do this ITS
Also, for any kind of upload of this package, checking that Horizon
isn't broken by the upload is mandatory. In the past, it happened
already that Horizon was broken by such a bad upload. Have you done such
a test?
Note: I'm happy to receive help on *any* package I maintain. But I am
*not* happy to get gratuitous hostile-take-over this way. I'm closing
this ITS bug.
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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