Am 11. Januar 2018 15:06:13 MEZ schrieb Mattia Rizzolo <[email protected]>: >On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 09:26:23PM +0800, gustavo panizzo wrote: >> I sent 2 emails to the DD asking its plans for the package >> and offering to take over the maintenance. To date I have no answer. >> >> What can I do? > >Sadly, we have no good ways to deal with those cases. Your options >are: >1 keep mailing hoping something will happen >2 keep NMUing like crazy hoping the maintainer won't mind and won't > overwrite your changes >3 do a "co-hijack", i.e. add yourself in Uploaders, and hope the > maintainer won't mind >4 completely hijack the package and hope the original maintainer won't > mind >5 get the Technical Committee on board and have them hijack the package > from the current maintainer and give it to you > >Also sadly, the only options that are "written down" and widely >accepted >are 1 and 5, where 1 most likely will lead to nothing and 5 will make >everybody angry. 2 will be totally awkward and annoying in the long >run, and 4 most likely will upset the current maintainer. IMHO the >best >shot is to do a number of NMUs in several months, and then try option 3 >(possibly followed by 4 a couple of years later or so).
At DebConf 17 we had a BoF (if you love your package let it go) on this topic and one outcome was to advocate the proposal to salvage those cases/packages: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/09/msg00654.html (I'm currently on the road so it's hard to elaborate more ATM) Tobi
