Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:20:56AM +1000, Mark Purcell wrote: >> It would appear that doc++ was incorrectly removed from both testing and >> unstable as it was thought that it was obsoleted by a Java documentation >> package, however doc++ was also an important Build-Depends for a number of >> packages in sarge (See #265273 for history): > >> dancer-xml >> dlisp >> dmachinemon >> fwbuilder >> libdshconfig >> libfwbuilder >> openh323 >> pwlib > >> I have prepared a NMU of doc++ (from snapshot.debian.net), loaded into >> incoming and would request that it be processed though the queue quickly and >> be replaced back into sarge. > > Actually, someone else already beat you to NMUing, but it is sitting in > the NEW queue nevertheless. > > It just needs to have an ftpmaster approve it.
Guys you can't NMU a removed package back into the archive - someone needs to take it over. Don't re-upload it with the old Maintainer field. The previous maintainer explicitly requested it be removed, clearly doesn't want responsibility for it and that can't be forced on them. -- James
