Re: Debian packaging of Picard
On 11-07-04 at 03:09pm, Clint Adams wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 08:25:06PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > @Sébastien: It doesn't work like that - you cannot hijack a package > > without the consent of its current maintainer. But if Adam either > > Of course you can. If you had consent of the maintainer, it would not > be hijacking. > > In this case, the maintainer has not replied to this bug in a year, > and has not uploaded the package in over two years. Sorry for my lousy way of expression. Let me try again...: You cannot simply hijack a package. True, you can hijack a package - after ensuring that the current package maintainer is truly MIA (missing in action). Just looking at the time since latest change to the package is *not* enough to judge its maintainer as MIA, and neither is looking at activity on bugreports for the package! None of this is Truth(tm), only opinion. Feel free to disagree. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
Re: Debian packaging of Picard
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 08:25:06PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > @Sébastien: It doesn't work like that - you cannot hijack a package > without the consent of its current maintainer. But if Adam either Of course you can. If you had consent of the maintainer, it would not be hijacking. In this case, the maintainer has not replied to this bug in a year, and has not uploaded the package in over two years. ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
Re: Debian packaging of Picard
Hi Jonas, Jonas Smedegaard writes: > I am quite interested in Picard, and am curious if you have perhaps lost > interest in maintaining its packaging for Debian? > > @Sébastien: It doesn't work like that - you cannot hijack a package > without the consent of its current maintainer. But if Adam either > agrees, we can maintain it together in the Debian Multimedia Maintainers > team as I proposed in September 2010 in this bugreport. That would IMHO > help the package to have more people care for it, compared to the > current situation. Sure, my goal is not to hijack the package nor to minimize the work of anybody. Note that since I am not a DD nor a DM, I have not the power of doing so, even if I wanted to. Also note that I have contacted Adam and asked about his opinion. My goal was 1) to have a package working for me 2) to share this with other intersted users 3) to give my contribution to the maintenance of the package. I am willing to help in any collaborative setup, including, if Adam agrees, the Debian Multimedia Maintainers team. Cheers, -- Sébastien Villemot CEPREMAP - Paris School of Economics Homepage: http://www.dynare.org/sebastien Landline phone: +33 1 40 77 49 90 SIP phone: sebastien.ville...@ekiga.net PGP Key: 0xA6C029B9D06B2913D71C105EBE37E801FB6EFF8B (http://pgp.mit.edu/) pgpODVNpjmHRq.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
Re: Debian packaging of Picard
Hi Jonas, Jonas Smedegaard writes: > I am quite interested in Picard, and am curious if you have perhaps lost > interest in maintaining its packaging for Debian? > > @Sébastien: It doesn't work like that - you cannot hijack a package > without the consent of its current maintainer. But if Adam either > agrees, we can maintain it together in the Debian Multimedia Maintainers > team as I proposed in September 2010 in this bugreport. That would IMHO > help the package to have more people care for it, compared to the > current situation. Sure, my goal is not to hijack the package nor to minimize the work of anybody. Note that since I am not a DD nor a DM, I have not the power of doing so, even if I wanted to. Also note that I have contacted Adam and asked about his opinion. My goal was 1) to have a package working for me 2) to share this with other intersted users 3) to give my contribution to the maintenance of the package. I am willing to help in any collaborative setup, including, if Adam agrees, the Debian Multimedia Maintainers team. Cheers, -- Sébastien Villemot CEPREMAP - Paris School of Economics Homepage: http://www.dynare.org/sebastien Landline phone: +33 1 40 77 49 90 SIP phone: sebastien.ville...@ekiga.net PGP Key: 0xA6C029B9D06B2913D71C105EBE37E801FB6EFF8B (http://pgp.mit.edu/) pgpRkISvz760s.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
