Re: Procedure for adopting a package?

2006-07-03 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 22:53 +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: Please don't feel offended. I tried to contact you several times and I hijacked this packaged because I couldn't do that. In the future, an NMU might be a better start for improving a package that lacks care, rather than

Procedure for adopting a package?

2006-07-02 Thread Ryan Coyner
Hello Mr. Fenski As the maintainer of the package calcurse (at least until yesterday) I was surprised, both good and bad, this morning to check my email and find that a new version of calcurse has been uploaded to Debian. I was surprised in a good way because the upload of version 1.4 was

Re: Procedure for adopting a package?

2006-07-02 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Ryan Coyner [Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:11:36 -0400]: However I must admit that I'll think twice about packaging software in the future if there is indeed a policy where a DD can simply take over maintainence of a package without even sending me a courtesy email. No, there isn't such policy. To

Re: Procedure for adopting a package?

2006-07-02 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:11:36PM -0400, Ryan Coyner wrote: Hello Mr. Fenski Hi. As the maintainer of the package calcurse (at least until yesterday) I was surprised, both good and bad, this morning to check my email and find that a new version of calcurse has been uploaded to Debian. I

Re: Procedure for adopting a package?

2006-07-02 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 02 July 2006 23:53, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: --cut-- From the bug reports you've filed against calcurse it's clear to me that you probably are the perfect person to maintain it, so in the final analysis I have no issue with you becoming the maintainer. But like I said, I