Hi Bart, thanks for the reply. On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Bart Martens <ba...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > I'm intentionally answering to debian-mentors instead of debian-devel. > > On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:27:22PM -0700, Vincent W. Chen wrote: >> My questions involve bug #684395 and the FVWM package. Though the bug >> is only severity: wishlist, I do hope to see newer version make it to >> Wheezy, > > Feel free to ask debian-release to grant an unblock for the newer upstream > release as an exception to the freeze policy. > >> seeing as how the last NMU was on 2012 May 5 and the last >> update by maintainer Manoj was on 2010 Jun 8. As indicated in the bug >> report, the current version in Debian is outdated and no longer >> maintained by upstream. I have contacted Manoj and his reply was >> included in the bug report, but no update has been received from him >> since, which was over a month ago. >> >> I am willing to co-maintain the package with Manoj, or even maintain >> it by myself if he's no longer interested in dealing with it. But >> since there has been no reply > > Manoj Srivastava wrote on the bug report "I would love to have a > co-maintainer. > I would even give up maintainership, if you prefer that.". > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=15;bug=684395 > I understand the two options he presented. I merely expected some sort of reply from him to my two messages since. I'll try to contact him privately again.
>> from him I now turn to the list: any >> suggestion on what I should do now, or what I should have done? > > You can choose between the two options Manoj Srivastava gave you. Your > package > at mentors has "needs sponsor = no", so you could switch that to "yes" if you > are looking for a sponsor. > I understand that I would need a sponsor for my package. The reason why I did not mark it as needing sponsor was because I'm not adopting nor am I filing ITP --- the package already belongs to a maintainer. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the process and I should just go on and look for a mentor? Regards, Vincent Chen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cafuqieaxonwhs6pot4ze_73xtt4pabh3zpa1p7+vuxhaatl...@mail.gmail.com