Hello Andreas, On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:10:15 +0100 Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 01:36:06PM +0100, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:14:57 +0100 > > Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> wrote: > > > Either way I think we should take the time to investigate the > > > maintenance status and either give the package to Debian QA team > > > if noone is interested in adopting it while we're doing an upload > > > here. > > > > What is the proper course of action? I've just read through some of > > the pages from the QA team and it seems like an email to > > m...@qa.debian.org might be the first step [3] . > > There's an offical way and there's what I'd say you can do with > gmrun... > > On gmrun I think you can just set yourself as maintainer in the > package and update debian/changelog to version it as a maintainer > upload rather than a NMU. If you want to be nice, send out an "intent > to hijack" to debian-devel list. Also give 2 weeks time for the > maintainer to reply. (I think we can consider this mail conversion as > a notice to the maintainer of your intent. I also think there's too > little evidence of any actual maintenance done on gmrun for the > current maintainer to claim his ownership... we could just go > straight for upload without doing the extra "nice" steps.) > Don't forget to send me the new .dsc url once you've updated the > package with you as maintainer. (Official way to get sponsorship is > to file a RFS bug against sponsorship-requests in the bug tracking > system. I won't promive to sponsor all your future uploads, but > hopefully you'll find someone else who can help you out with that when > I don't have time to help you out.....) > > If you want to be extra nice to Debian you might want to also > investigate if Alexandre has gone fully MIA and have his other > packages be marked as orphaned. I'm looking at > https://contributors.debian.org/contributor/adedommelin-guest@alioth/ > and it indeed seems he's no longer active in Debian and you could > contact the MIA team to help get him removed from > Maintainers/Uploaders in all packages he's listed in....
Thanks for explaining that. I think I would be more comfortable with doing this as a NMU now and do a proper maintainer transition (giving Alexendre enough time to react) with a first upload for buster. That will also allow me to create a first upload as maintainer which actually contains work done by me. However, if you think it's better to the maintainer transition right away, I will follow your advice and prepare a new upload (but I would like to avoid the 2 weeks delay, so it would end up not being the "nice" version of your suggestion). Regards Lukas Schwaighofer
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