Rogério's mail ([0]) gave me desire to insist. Now I'm being much more clearer and short: a (not so unpopular) package (Denemo) is unmaintained. It has bugs and a very old version packaged, which upstream strongly suggests to avoid. I repackaged it from scratch: last upstream version (and changes aren't really minor, also w.r.t. packaging), and dropped CDBS.
To the first mail I send, the maintainer answers, after 15 days, "I have no time to comment". To the second mail, where I link the package I made, no answer after 18 days. What should I do? "Just wait" would also be an admissible response... but _how much time_? And then? thanks Pietro [0]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2009/08/msg00308.html P.S: please CC me too, I'm in -mentors but not in -devel Il giorno dom, 16/08/2009 alle 18.49 +0200, Pietro Battiston ha scritto: > Hello, > the situation of the package denemo is perfectly described in the > following: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513285 > > Notice that today if a Debian user wants to use denemo, the best thing > to do is certainly to use the package at [1], as far as: > - you use i386 > - you don't care about installing a binary package without source, > poorly packaged (several lintian errors) and not provided by any > repository > > Moving from that sad situation (on a quite popular package - > 500 > popcon reports - in particular considering that being the version > distributed with debian so obsolete and the upstream debs packages very > recent, probably lot of people just install from source), I wanted to > update the existing package to last denemo version, 1.8.6. In the > attached email, sent to the current maintainer, I explain the details. > The short mail from Gunter was the answer to my precedent (14 days > before's) email asking "may I ask you to comment on the bug report > #513285 ?". > > Since I didn't receive an answer from Gunter to the forwarded email > (after 15 days), I'm resending here to get some enlightenment. I'm > afraid NMU is not the key word here, since I'm changing version and > packaging tools (however, doing a NMU that doesn't bring in last > upstream version would be pointless, and I personally won't learn CDBS). > > Just to be clear, I don't want to blame Gunter for anything: he's just > busy, stop. I just want denemo in debian, so I'm asking "what to do?". > > thanks > > Pietro Battiston > > > ------- Messaggio inoltrato ------- > > Da: Pietro Battiston <too...@email.it> > > A: Günter Geiger <gei...@xdv.org> > > Oggetto: Re: Denemo > > Data: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:36:00 +0200 > > > > Il giorno mer, 22/07/2009 alle 20.11 +0200, Günter Geiger ha scritto: > > > Hi, > > > > > > No, it is ok to ask for my comment. I just do not have the time > > > currently. > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > Gunter > > > > It would be useless to debate on how much time it takes to write "I do > > not have the time" on a bug report vs. in a private mail, so it's not > > what I'm writing you about. I have repackaged the last denemo: 0.8.6. It > > is lintian clean, works, I reapplied both your patches, added a patch > > which upstream still didn't adopt and which shows the icon on Linux, > > wrote a manpage for the now included smfsh and updated copyright and > > watch file. You can find the dsc at: > > > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/denemo/denemo_0.8.6-1.dsc > > > > Just tell me what to do now. > > > > Currently the package contains the original changelog with my add-on > > (and several of the currently open bugs as "Closes" - there may be more, > > but for them I'll ask confirmation to the submitters once the package is > > available). However, truth is that I completely repackaged denemo, > > without using CDBS (I tried, but I just dropped it because I didn't have > > enough time to learn how to fix problems with what to my very very > > personal taste seemed a crippled system). That's why I figure as a > > maintainer. However I'm not particularly interested in being it, I only > > want a working denemo in debian as soon as possible: so, while the > > current thing is just ready to be sponsored, please feel free to decide > > the form you want the upload to take - NMU? You sponsor me? You silently > > adopt my repackaging and put still your name as maintainer? You orphan, > > I adopt? You orphan, I ITP? > > > > Notice that I would warmly appreciate if in a way or another _you_ could > > upload the package and spare me the boring job of finding a sponsor. > > > > But most of all I would appreciate a fast response, whatever it will be. > > > > thank you > > > > Pietro
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