On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:14:24AM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > [ last uploader here ] > > Ansgar Burchardt wrote... > > > The maintainer address for gkremldk bounces, see below. > > > > As the last maintainer upload was 2007 and this is the only package > > (still) listing him as the maintainer, I wonder if he is still active. > > Please advise what could be done to get this baby into stretch given the > small amount of time left. > > AFAICS the maintainer should be considered MIA, but the process takes > some time. Also, as I'm not interested in maintaining the package, it > will probably end up in the QA team's domain. > > So I could technically hijack the package by a new, QA upload, > maintainer set to "Debian QA Group", also O: that package. Is this > acceptable?
You could set the maintainer address to xa...@debian.org: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=xa...@debian.org https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=xaiki%2Bdeb%40cxhome.ath.cx @Ansgar: This would "fix" the bug by replacing a bouncing email address with an address that accepts messages, but since the latest activity of this maintainer was in 2014 [1] I wonder whether this is really an improvementor whether the severity of this bug could be lowered. > Christoph cu Adrian [1] https://contributors.debian.org/contributor/xaiki@debian/ -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
