On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Vincent Bernat <[email protected]> wrote: > ❦ 17 octobre 2016 15:36 +0100, Punit Agrawal <[email protected]> : > >>> - Going the long way by asking the technical committee to hand over the >>> maintainance of the package to you (I'll sponsor your uploads if you >>> aren't DD). I can do it if you want. >>> >>> - Going the short way by putting your package as "global6" with a >>> conflict/replace against the regular global. Such a package may be >>> rejected by FTP-master (it should use alternatives) and we'll have to >>> escalate to the technical committee for a decision. But it may also >>> just work. I can sponsor your upload. >>> >>> I think Ron won't like the first solution at all but maybe he'll be fine >>> with the second one (he says previously that he would not prefer such a >>> solution but it seems that it was not too hostile). >>> >>> Which solution do you prefer? >> >> If we are going to end up going to the technical committee either >> ways, I'd rather that Ron gets a chance to change things instead of us >> working around him by uploading another package. Considering that >> users have been waiting for a long time, a bit more time isn't going >> to hurt. >> >> Having said that, I am not that familiar with debian processes so >> can't say which is the better option. > > It's a matter of opening a bug against the pseudo-package tech-ctte: > https://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte > > I can do that for you. This is the proper solution as they can help in > moving forward. However, note that in the past, it is pretty rare for > the technical committee to overrule a maintainer. But each case is a > separate case, it may just work.
Not sure if you were waiting for a response. I'd appreciate if you kicked off the bug to the technical committee. In the meanwhile, hoping for the best, I'll dust off the package I had and work on bringing it up to speed with current upstream release. If nothing else, it'll help remind me what I'd done. > -- > Make sure special cases are truly special. > - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)
