Le Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:01:00PM +0200, Jeffrey Ratcliffe a écrit : > On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 09:57:53AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > You might want ping the maintainer directly and to report them as MIA > > if they do not respond: > > He's been pinged on several occasions on #521722[1]. Ubuntu has > had new upstream version for nearly a year. > > I'll ping him again directly and wait two weeks, but I assumed this is > what the 10-day delayed queue was for - to give the maintainer a last > chance to respond before the NMU is uploaded.
Dear Jeff, If goocanvas is updated by NMU, who will be responsible for taking care for any issue introduced by this upload: the maintainer? you? the NMU sponsor? It is to avoid such solution where responsability is unclear that packages are not updated by NMU in Debian. If the maintainer does not respond to the requests for updates, is is a hint that the package needs a new maintainer (in addition or replacement for the current one), or that the package should better be removed. Updating a package by NMU solves a problem in the short term, but increases the risk that nobody will be there for later problems. Perhaps you can propose to the current maintainer to open his package to collaborative maintainance, by creating or joining a team, or simply accepting co-maintainers (you?) who commit themselves on a longer term than a single upload? Have a nice day, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
