Control: Severity -1 important On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 11:14:24 +0100 Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchma l.in-ulm.de> wrote: > [ last uploader here ] > > Ansgar Burchardt wrote... > > > The maintainer address for gkremldk bounces, see below. > > > > As the last maintainer upload was 2007 and this is the only package > > (still) listing him as the maintainer, I wonder if he is still active.
Seems so that this Maintainer email adress is an alias to xaiki@d.o Last upload Dec 2014 (https://contributors.debian.org/contributor/xaiki %40debian.org/) > Please advise what could be done to get this baby into stretch given the > small amount of time left. I thought about it. I guess for now it is to say this is not serious. One time a fellow DD told me to always ask this question if you pick a RC severity: "Should this be a reason to delay a release?" If the answer is no, the severity is not RC. I guess the answer here is no. Also this is is not listed in https://release.debian.org/stretch/rc_pol icy.txt, so -- as I was told in #830151 -- this is not RC. (Additional, the bouning email type of bugs are normally not fixable by an NMU and not so much diffence to packages with working emails but not working maintainers -- we also do not make them RC on suspect of MIAness or if they don't answer emails.) > AFAICS the maintainer should be considered MIA, but the process takes > some time. Also, as I'm not interested in maintaining the package, it > will probably end up in the QA team's domain. Maybe. But it were not the first case where a gentle push or reminder made the contributions to resume. > So I could technically hijack the package by a new, QA upload, > maintainer set to "Debian QA Group", also O: that package. Is this > acceptable? No, it isn't appropiate. What could work in this particular case is an NMU to set the adress to xa...@debian.org, as this is for 99.9%* an alias of xaiki+deb@cxhome.a th.cx. * hints: https://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2006/08/msg00 010.html The proper fix -- a MIA process -- will take some time. I've started one now. > Christoph -- tobi (with mostly his owns opinions but acting also with QA/MIA hat on)
