On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 07:03:05PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > This timeframe doesn't designate a person as MIA, sorry. > > Hum... ok. What's the usual timeframe then?
Usually we start "pestering" people after they are inactive for more
than a year.
There are exception of course.
> The unresponsiveness of maintainers combined with the strong ownership
> of packages is one thing which very frustrating in Debian. It gives the
> feeling that no mater what, we can't do anything.
Yes, I'm sure you know that's a common complaint from a lot of people
about how debian works. The situation improved though.
> Would you consider then, that I is ok to NMU the package, to upgrade to
> the latest upstream release and address the 2 other open bugs, plus some
> packaging clean-ups (if needed, as I haven't checked yet...)?
An NMU is always fine, assuming the usual procedure, that I'm sure you
know very well, is followed.
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