On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:59:58AM +0100, Janusz S. Bien wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:27:51 +0100 > Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > Did you try to contact the maintainer before taking this step? > > No. I guess I should, but after some hesitation I decided that the > facts are obvious and taking such a shortcut will save some time in > bringing the upgrade to Debian users.
This can be achieved otherwise, well, such a shortcut (asking for someone to hijack the package without even asking the maintainer) is considered a tad rude if the maintainer isn't even cc'd on the actual request. If a maintainer is unresponsive, you can always as user mail to -devel asking about it, or the better mailinglist in this case would have been -qa. > My apology if I broke some rules - a BTS manual for *users* seems to > be missing. wnpp (this isn't about the BTS really, you apparantly are perfectly able to send out a good O: bugreport on wnpp) is not at all intended for users, developer (but readable for everyone) documentation is available[0] (but not dealing with what to do with neglecting packages). Neglected/outdated packages only as last step will get orphaned, see [1] for a bit of information (though not complete nor 100% useful for non-developers). I do acknowledge however, that when I tried a user-oriented search for what to do, I failed to find any good information, except mailinglists to ask for. This probably should be fixed... --Jeroen [0] http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-beyond-pkging.en.html#s-mia-qa -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
