Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > assume that a package maintainer is active but is doing a bad job > regarding our standards (things like ignoring problems in stable, breaking > backwards compatibility for no good reason, not packaging new upstream > versions in unstable, etc) and is not really cooperative (closing bugs > hastily, not responding to help offers). > > What shall we do in those situations? > > Best case, I'm very motivated and I hijack the package but assume that I'm > just interested in having a working package because it's a dependency of a > package that I use but that I don't care enough to take it over. What are > my options?
On a similar topic, a couple of years ago, there was an effort to set up a salvaging process. Not quite for the situation Raphael describes, but somewhat related. My question to both candidates would be: what's your opinion on salvaging packages? If favourable, what do you think, could move it forward? -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/8738i21xx9....@balabit.hu