Hi Upi, On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:09:20PM +0200, Upi Tamminen wrote: > I'm the upstream maintainer of this software, and the debian package I've > prepared for it has been uploaded by a sponsor. > > I haven't made updates to the software in a long time, but it's still a > relevant piece of software for as long as epic4 is in debian.
Please understand, I'm not judging the relevance of this piece of software, not at all. I'm concerned about its status in Debian and that really needs to be improved. There is technically no need for changes upstream to do that. > I was not aware there were problems with the package, but I guess the package > is pretty old now. > > I'm willing to prepare a new package and have it uploaded by a sponsor > (hopefully) in near future. > > So for now there's no need to orphan the package. Of course a debian > maintainer is always welcome to take over the packaging, as I'm personally not > very active in the debian community. Well, the point is: it seems to me that (maybe because you're not that active in Debian in general) you don't really seek to keep the Debian status well. That is okay since it's not upstream's job to do so. But as a consequence I'd say it'd be better to orphan the package in order to even find a Debian maintainer. Also, once the package is orphaned you can still provide updates for it. They would be uploaded as "QA uploads". No problem there. You can even request updates for your (orphaned) package on debian...@lists.debian.org if you prepare such. So, what do you think? Hauke on behalf of Debian QA/MIA
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