On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 08:49:47PM -0500, Boyuan Yang wrote:
> Package: command-not-found
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-CC: j...@debian.org
> 
> Hi Julian,
> 
> I recently discovered the difference between Debian's command-not-found and
> Ubuntu's command-not-found. It seems that Debian's version is pretty under-
> maintained and I'm curious about its reason. I'd like to help push some new
> version into Debian (and especially before Buster freeze) so I'm starting the
> ITS process [1] for package command-not-found now according to Debian's
> Developer's Reference ยง5.12. As listed on the package tracker page[2], Julian
> Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> is the current maintainer for 
> command-not-found.
> 
> According to the ITS process, I will wait for others' reply and comments
> and prepare a new NMU after 2018-12-11 if no one objects the ITS. The new NMU
> will be uploaded onto DELAYED/7. Meanwhile, the original maintainer can always
> send a (signed) email response at any time to halt this process.

Please do not mess with this package.

> 
> For this specific package, if there's any reason about not uploading new
> versions of command-not-found, please let me know and I'm willing to help to
> solve those issues.

It works fine as is. There is no strong need to "upgrade" it
immediately, and organizing a proper upstream is a work in progress
since many years.

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