Hello, Thomas. Thanks for your interest in adopting yum. Your plan sounds good. Since the former co-maintainer explicitly suggested handing it over to some interested party, and the main maintainer recently retired from Debian, I think you can go forward immediately with this adoption.
Also, please note it would have sufficed to CC debian-qa. The debian-release list did not need to be in the loop for this. Cheers, * Thomas Goirand [Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:27:35 +0800]: > Hi, > I hope that sending this as copy to debian...@lists.debian.org and > debian-rele...@lists.debian.org is the way to go and that this is not > disturbing some already busy lists. Forgive me if that is too much. > It seems that the maintainer of the package has not been seen since > 2005, and that the co-maintainer is not interested in the package > anymore, as per: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/02/msg00413.html > In this, he wrote: > "I was only working on it on behalf of OLPC. Since I'm no longer with > them, I don't really have any interest in working on it. I would > suggest giving it to someone who has a use for it." > Barry deFreese told me on #debian-mentors that he "will orphan it shortly". > As the package is very important to us (we use it to bootstrap CentOS > VMs from a Xen dom0 and resell it to our customers), we wish to take > over maintainership. I am comfortable with Debian packaging, while my > employee, Manuel Amador, is comfortable with python and RPM things. > Together as a team, we will (hopefully) be able to maintain yum > correctly in Debian. We have created a specific email address for > communicating about the package, this forwards to rud...@rudd-o.com > (Manuel Amador's address) and tho...@goirand.fr (myself): > yumpack...@gplhost.com > Please write to it for any concerns about the yum package in Debian. > I'll feel an ITA as soon as I see that the package is orphaned. > Last thing: we have prepared a new package with the latest version from > upstream (as the current one was really not working well, with lot's of > bad printing, and sometimes hanging for minutes doing nothing) in here: > ftp://ftp.gplhost.com/debian/dists/lenny/main/source/yum_3.2.21-1~gplhost1.dsc > Of course, we will change the version number, but as this is in our > repository for the moment, the version above is ok. Anyway, we would > need to close the ITA number, so we would need to update the package > whatever happens. > Thomas Goirand -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always. -- Rory and Lorelai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
