Le Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:43:17PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > In general, I think that we are a bit too careful when dealing with > non-responding maintainers. The maintainer of this package has ignored > comments on that bug report for more than a year, despite making an > upload on another package recently > (http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/deja-dup/news/20100403T142238Z.html). > It is quite clear that he lost interest, but forgot to orphan the > package.
Hi Lucas, I strongly agree with this, and I think that the package should be orphaned, hijacked or removed instead of being NMUed. I have hijacked a couple of packages in the past; it is as easy as announcing it on -devel, and uploading a couple of weeks later. If the package is only updated by NMU, the same story of requesting update, being ignored, preparing a NMU, asking for a sponsor on debian-mentors and triggering a meta-discussion may happen again and again. In my (minority?) opinion, NMU is to help maintainers, not to deal with de facto abandonned packages. Bon week-end, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
