Hi Gianfranco and David, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi Axel, you can also upload straight away on unstable,
Ok, done. > because I met last year David, and he told me that he doesn't mind > if the package is kept alive :) Thanks a lot for that confirmation. I remember having read such a statement somewhere, but couldn't remember where. After a lot of digging around on Launchpad I've finally found it again: https://answers.launchpad.net/wicd/+question/227789 -- the last question in there is even from myself about 20 months ago. I asked if the new upstream maintainers will take over the Debian/Ubuntu packages of wicd, too, but no answer so far. > He is overbusy in real life job, but he would avoid seeing the package die > (and seems that somebody else is already contributing upstream). So IMHO the best would be to orphan the package officially. Actually I was planning to contact David after this NMU to ask if I can orphan the package. But let's do it here: David, if you don't mind, I'll officially orphan the wicd package. The statement above by Gianfranco and https://answers.launchpad.net/wicd/+question/227789 give me enough confidence that a formal MIA process is not needed for that. Feel free to object if you have an better idea. > Since in collab-maint there is a new upstream release packaged, I > would even try to upload that one Oh, I didn't notice, despite I had it checked out from my previous NMU. Will check. Will also incorporate the NMU there. > But well, maybe in a future NMU upload :) I'll likely do it as QA upload instead. I'm no Python guy, so I don't feel confident enough to maintain the package officially. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
