I demand that Arno Töll may or may not have written... [snip] > 2) ... Drive-by sponsoring does not work. It's annoying and back-breaking > to the sponsored maintainer to have a package containing lots of fixes and > maybe a new upstream version but nobody who uploads the you've been working > on (yes, that happens)
mercurial-buildpackage. I recall being told that it should be rewritten in another language. I don't disagree *but* that would involve more change and, possibly, make the changes a lot less reviewable (and might introduce Many Bugs™). My choice here is to get what I've done to it in the archive before any re-implementation is done. (Incidentally, I'm using it for maintenance of the various xine packages.) > 3) It's not helpful because the sponsor, at best, has a rough and cursory > understanding how the package works. There's possibly a case for enabling DMUA without requiring a sponsored upload. But it would have to be case-by-case, and it's definitely not something to be done lightly. > 4) It's not clear at all how a bug fix could be uploaded to Debian at all, > so the package might be in bad shape soon as nobody who /could/ upload > feels responsible for it and those who care /can't/ upload. Packages get left to rot. DMs don't bother with them because they've been (effectively) ignored before; some may create external repositories for the packages instead... [snip] -- | _ | Darren Salt, using Debian GNU/Linux (and Android) | ( ) | | X | ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML e-mail | / \ | http://www.asciiribbon.org/ Press SPACE or click mouse to continue -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52a6383cc4%lists...@moreofthesa.me.uk