Laurent Bigonville <bi...@debian.org> writes: > by Debian Constitution §§6.1.3 - 6.1.5 we ask you on advice and > possibly to overrule a maintainer in case of the maintenance for the > dma package. Our rationale follows:
> * The package in Debian is outdated and has a recent history of release > critical bugs (#697871, #688682). None of these were fixed by the > maintainer, and the maintainer generally seems absent while not > completely unreachable. Therefore there is no reason to assume, the > package was orphaned. As a result, the package missed the Wheezy > release. Based on the prior discussion in this bug, it looks like this is just a case of an overwhelmed maintainer who hasn't had time to work on Debian. Peter, it looks like, despite the best of intentions, you've not had a chance to maintain this package for a while (and indeed have not had a whole lot of time for Debian packaging for a while). I know this is a hard thing to do, since it always feels like you'll have plenty of time next month, but have you considered trying to shed your load a little and put packages up for adoption or at least comaintenance? It sounds like there are interested people who are eager to help with dma, This might be a good opportunity to take a few things off your plate (and get rid of some of the psychic weight that I know comes with having lots of things pending that you don't have time to work on). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
