On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 10:47:58PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> I admit I have no personal interest in this package and I do not use it.
> My interest was to make some package that was NMUed a couple of times,
> and thus obviously gained some interest by several people, more easily
> accessible for potential contributors. Thus I filed the ITS bug. If
> you think its better to remove the package I'm perfectly fine with this.
So I'm confused. This is directly at odds with Debian's Developers
Reference Guide[1]:
Package salvaging is the process by which one attempts to save a
package that, while not officially orphaned, appears poorly
maintained or completely unmaintained. This is a weaker and faster
procedure than orphaning a package officially through the powers
of the MIA team. Salvaging a package is not meant to replace MIA
handling, and differs in that it does not imply anything about the
overall activity of a maintainer. Instead, it handles a package
maintainership transition for a single package only, leaving any
other package or Debian membership or upload rights (when
applicable) untouched.
Note that the process is only intended for actively taking over
maintainership. DO NOT START A PACKAGE SALVAGING PROCESS WHEN YOU
DO NOT INTEND TO MAINTAIN THE PACKAGE FOR A PROLONGED TIME.
[1]
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging
There is one outstanding bug before you filed the ITS bug, and it was
a man page typo fix. This wasn't particularly urgent to fix, and it
seems odd to call that "poorly maintained".
So if you're not going to actively taking over maintainership, why are
you initiating the salvaging process?
- Ted
