Re: Seeking guidance re assisting with existing Debian package

2016-04-18 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 03:47:19PM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi, MIA team is aware now. yep, the MIA team is "aware", but happens that team members also read this mailing list :P I see that maintainer maintains 2 packages, and he did his last upload about one year ago. You said you

Re: Seeking guidance re assisting with existing Debian package

2016-04-18 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, MIA team is aware now. If you want to contribute, just send your package (source.changes) to mentors.debian.net and open an RFS bug to have an NMU in debian (the accept mail has a link for the RFS template). fix the RC bug, and the other bugs (optioally update to the new release), and

Re: Seeking guidance re assisting with existing Debian package

2016-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Jeremy Davis > Anyway, the version of Adminer in Jessie is really old. That is the expected situation, software in stable is almost never updated to the latest upstream version, but only gets targeted patches for security and other important issues. > there is

Re: Seeking guidance re assisting with existing Debian package

2016-04-17 Thread Ben Finney
Jeremy Davis writes: > Just wanting to clarify the process in my hope to assist with the > Debian package of Adminer. TBH I have never formerly been involved > with Debian packaging but I think that I have a reasonable idea of > what's involved. Thank you for your

Re: Seeking guidance re assisting with existing Debian package

2016-04-17 Thread Ben Finney
Jeremy Davis writes: > -if I don't get a response, what then? After some weeks of no response, you can request an investigation by the Missing In Action team who will go through a formal process to determine whether the maintainer is MIA. > -if I get a response: > >