Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > Whether a package is in need of greater attention is not a hard and > fast objective thing. It's to a large part subjective. Perhaps the > maintainer thinks it's more or less fine, or at least low enough > priority that the problems are tolerable.
Then the maintainer has many options, including but not limited to NACK-ing the ITO. One has a lot of possibilities even before it comes to filing an ITO. > It's one thing to say "this package is in need of attention which I am > prepared to commit to providing". It's quite another to say "this > package is in need of attention but I'm not going to do anything other > than say it's a problem". There is, indeed a difference, but the latter allows someone else (potentially a non-DD) to take over the package, and make it visible that the package is in need of a new maintainer. That alone is already a tremendous improvement compared to papering over the issue. -- |8] -- 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/87ehkma8mg.fsf@algernon.balabit
