On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 06:54:38AM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > >The changes I have quoted above are not usually appropriate for NMUs. > > > >In this case, it looks like those package maintainers are inactive (no > >uploads since 2005). You should contact the MIA team to have the > >package orphaned. > > well, the package hasn't been touched in over a decade, so I presume > it might be fine to upload the fixes in deferred/15, even as NMU. > I guess they had *all* the time to refactor the package, and update it. > > I'm ccing them both, and a member of MIA team, even if I'm unsure about the > MIA process for non DD people,
The MIA database does contain information about everyone, any DD can query it: ssh qa.debian.org /srv/qa.debian.org/mia/mia-query [email protected] ssh qa.debian.org /srv/qa.debian.org/mia/mia-query [email protected] As activity-pgp is Dec 2006 and Apr 2013 respectively, both of them are pretty thoroughly inactive. I've thus pushed the big "O" button and filed #827890. > So, I think the particular bug can be fixed only with a package refactor, and > I don't want to throw away half of your work just because of policy, in case > of a package *clearly* unmaintained since 11 years. With the package freshly orphaned, it's a matter of a QA upload or adoption. We're in salvage not hijack land... Meow! -- An imaginary friend squared is a real enemy.
