You could also offer to co-maintain... On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Guido van Steen <[email protected]> wrote: > Obviously, you should give the ITP/RFP bug author much more than a few > days to respond... Have you mentioned your interest to the bug page? > I would try to contact the bug author at least a few more times. > > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Gergely Nagy <[email protected]> wrote: >> Mathias Ertl <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> There is a package I desperately want in Debian and there already is an ITP >>> for it that is almost a year old. There wasn't any activity on it except >>> that >>> the author reverted the automatic ITP -> RFP conversion after 6 monts of >>> inactivity. I did write to the bug-author a few days ago if he still intends >>> to package it but haven't received a response yet. >>> >>> So in general: What is appropriate the procedure in adopting such a bug? I >>> don't want to 'hijack' anything. How long should I wait for a response from >>> the author? Should I file a new bug or change the owner of the old one? >> >> This largely depends on which ITP bug we're talking about, as there >> might be good reasons the ITP is still pending. Without more >> information, though, no reasonable suggestion can be made, in my >> opinion. >> >> -- >> |8] >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] >> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] >> >> >
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