On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:04:45PM +0100, Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote: > I saw that gtk-gnutella is not accepted in Etch because of it not > compiling on ARM and because the current .deb is too old.
No, the second of these bugs isn't that the current .deb is too old, it's that gtk-gnutella is not suitable for inclusion in a stable Debian release because the versions of gtk-gnutella "expire" a year after their release. Such software cannot be reasonably included in Debian releases that have a 3-year support cycle. > First of all: I'm not sure this list even exists and if it is for the > purpose I am looking for, but here goes: And no, it isn't. If you think the package is unmaintained, you need to talk to the QA team; if you think the package is maintained but the maintainer is unfit, you would need to talk to the technical committee; if you have some agreement worked out with the maintainer and just need someone to help you with uploading, you need to talk to debian-mentors. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
