Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - skipping pointless delay

2012-10-26 Thread Bart Martens
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 02:50:46PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: I'm also not that keen on the idea that the outcome is to orphan the package. Orphaning the package it not the final outcome. The goal is to get packages salvaged. See the two activities explained here:

[SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - skipping pointless delay

2012-10-26 Thread vangelis mouhtsis
Hi, I'm wondering, before a package will be orphaned is it possible/ needful the owner to ask for help or to express the reasons? Regards gnugr

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - skipping pointless delay

2012-10-26 Thread Thibaut Paumard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 26/10/2012 08:35, vangelis mouhtsis a écrit : Hi, I'm wondering, before a package will be orphaned is it possible/ needful the owner to ask for help or to express the reasons? Regards gnugr http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ Look for RFH

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - skipping pointless delay

2012-10-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Bart Martens writes (Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - skipping pointless delay): On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 02:50:46PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: 3. Wait for objections For how long ? The proposal includes collecting ACKs so that any pointless delay can