Hello Lukas, On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 01:36:06PM +0100, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:14:57 +0100 > Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> wrote: > > Please post the full .dsc url (so I can simply dget it, and I don't > > care much about you using mentors or not.... that's mainly a thing > > to allow you to practise the signing and dput way that you'll need > > to be aquanted with once you get credentials to do official uploads). > > Here is the dsc URL: > https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gmrun/gmrun_0.9.2-2.1+nmu1.dsc > > > I have to wonder though if this package really is maintained at all? > > (The officially listed maintainer hasn't touched the package since > > 2010.) Would you consider adopting it if not? > > Yes, I would consider adopting it. Ubuntu also has a bug report on a > similar problem [1] and a more extensive patch that seems to address > more outdated API calls [2]. I wanted to keep this upload minimal > because stretch is already frozen, but going forward to buster this is > definitely something I would look at.
Understanding the bigger picture and having a plan is part of the maintainer responsibility so it sounds like you'll do a good job! :) > > > Either way I think we should take the time to investigate the > > maintenance status and either give the package to Debian QA team if > > noone is interested in adopting it while we're doing an upload here. > > What is the proper course of action? I've just read through some of the > pages from the QA team and it seems like an email to m...@qa.debian.org > might be the first step [3] . There's an offical way and there's what I'd say you can do with gmrun... On gmrun I think you can just set yourself as maintainer in the package and update debian/changelog to version it as a maintainer upload rather than a NMU. If you want to be nice, send out an "intent to hijack" to debian-devel list. Also give 2 weeks time for the maintainer to reply. (I think we can consider this mail conversion as a notice to the maintainer of your intent. I also think there's too little evidence of any actual maintenance done on gmrun for the current maintainer to claim his ownership... we could just go straight for upload without doing the extra "nice" steps.) Don't forget to send me the new .dsc url once you've updated the package with you as maintainer. (Official way to get sponsorship is to file a RFS bug against sponsorship-requests in the bug tracking system. I won't promive to sponsor all your future uploads, but hopefully you'll find someone else who can help you out with that when I don't have time to help you out.....) If you want to be extra nice to Debian you might want to also investigate if Alexandre has gone fully MIA and have his other packages be marked as orphaned. I'm looking at https://contributors.debian.org/contributor/adedommelin-guest@alioth/ and it indeed seems he's no longer active in Debian and you could contact the MIA team to help get him removed from Maintainers/Uploaders in all packages he's listed in.... Regards, Andreas Henriksson
