Am 11.12.2015 um 14:56 schrieb Ross Gammon:
Hi Hermann,
On 12/08/2015 09:59 AM, Hermann Meyer wrote:
Hello
I'm the upstream maintainer of the guitarix project, and I've noticed
that guitarix is marked as autoremoval in debian/testing because of this
bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=805666
The bug mentioned above is fixed in upstream since some time, as I'm
myself been a debian/sid user.
I've tried to reach the debian maintainer (Roland Stigge) of the
guitarix project for some time now, to no avail.
To avoid the removal, just a new upload of the latest version is needed,
so I like to ask here, if someone her could do that?
Thanks for helping to take care of guitarix in Debian as well as upstream.
I see on the bug you have correctly tagged it as fixed upstream.
Unfortunately, it sometimes happens that a maintainer goes missing (most
of the time only temporarily). But it is not cool to just take over and
upload a new version.
There is some information here about maintainers that are missing in action:
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MIA
As upstream, you could further help by adding a link in the Debian BTS
to the upstream commit that fixes the bug, or attach a patch.
Then someone could more easily do a Non Maintainer Upload (NMU) to keep
guitarix in debian testing (or get it back there after removal).
Regards,
Ross
Thanks for your response Ross
Well, indeed what I would like to ask here was a Non Maintainer Upload.
I ain't looking for someone to take over the debian maintenance for
guitarix,
but just help out by a single upload of the latest version.
I've had all the time a good contact to Roland and
I'm pretty sure that Roland would be fine with a NMU.
Just I wonder why I couldn't reach Roland in the last couple of month,
so I decide to take some action, to force a update of guitarix in debian.
I would love to have the latest version in debian/sid, instead only the
fixes.
There are a couple of other bug-fixes included in the latest version,
which never get reported to debian, so a update to the last stable version
would be the best solution.
regards
hermann
