Hi Ghislain, On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:34:33AM +0000, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like your opinion regarding the following matter. There is a package I > need an update for (h5py), which is now particularly outdated. It is > currently being maintained by a solo Debian maintainer, who I contacted > regarding this but has yet to reply. So I worked on my own, fixed the > packaging for the latest upstream version and tested locally on my work > machines.
Thanks for working on this. > My understanding is that, If the package were team-maintained (like hdf5 > for instance), I could provide these changes and contribute to updating the > package in an easier way. I am not even sure how I can forward my changes > to the Debian maintainer, I am just so used to the comfort of working in > Debian-science / Debian-med I guess. > > My question is the following: is there a good practice for suggesting a > move to team-maintainership to a solo Debian maintainer ? Via a bug report > ? Mailing-list ? Direct email contact ? I guess this is your example case: https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2015/02/msg00007.html You might replace collab-maint by debian-science (since the package belongs to Debian Sciense as you correctly noticed above). When you write a comparable mail please also mention: "If I do not hear from you in <time - I'd suggest one week> I assume your accept the team maintenance in Debian Science." Thus you are not blocked by no answer. I know the maintainer Soeren Sonnenburg (not in person but from his work in Debian Med). He is nice and I think he will most probably agree - just a bit busy and thus I "team-hijacked" an other package from him into Debian Med (seqan). > Also, would that actually make sense, or am I just plain silly here ? This makes perfectly sense and is not silly at all. Thanks for your effort Andreas. PS: Feel free to quote me if you prefer to "hide" behind an older DD. :-) -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
