reopen 461984 severity 461984 important thanks On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:28:49PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> * You haven't done any upload to unstable since 08/2006. coreutils has >> been maintained by NMUs since then. > > Yup, because I talked to Manoj and decided that was the best way to get > the SElinux stuff he wanted into etch. > >> * The state of the package is really bad: it has been failing to build >> on mips and mipself for nearly a year. > > Well, the version in experimental has built on those archs more recently > than that. Note that a number of bugs are fixed in the experimental > version.
Still, it's quite clear that you're not able to keep up with the package and instead of closing this bug with dubious arguments, IMO you should try to find co-maintainers and/or setup a maintenance team. A first step would be to start using a public VCS and sending a call for help on -devel. Face the reality: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mstone Of 5 packages you maintain, 3 have NMU in unstable, and the 2 others have had their last upload in 2004. coreutils with 260 open bugs (and 23 patches waiting in the BTS) deserve a maintenance team, definitely. Even the PTS page has been asking maintainers of base packages to go in that direction for years: http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/coreutils.html Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
