On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:06:15PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:28:23PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> > I bet that multiarch gets included into Ubuntu about two weeks after > >> > we released lenny without multiarch. > >> > >> That's indeed the way the maintainer seems to work, and he keeps sitting > >> on way too many packages, stopping progress in Debian. Thanks for the fish. > >> > >> Multiarch should indeed go into Lenny, please consider an exception for it. > > > > Before you bring this to the tech ctte and such, don't you need a > > refusal by the maintainer? I mean, AFAIK on this issue the only > > response has been silence. And the usual way to deal with silence > > is to interpret it as lack of time rather than refusal (and > > accordingly send a polite offer to NMU). > > It is normally polite to ask. However, there are (as I'm sure we are > all aware) a number of developers who don't communicate with the rest > of the project *at all*, bar the occasional announcement. Trying to > discuss or collaborate with these few is nigh on impossible--and I > have in some cases been trying for several years, and have yet to get > even *one* reply to my mail and patches! It's like chucking them into > a black hole! > > If you do want to wait for permission/refusal, you might find you > never get a reply and end up waiting forever. So, why not wait long > enough for a reply, say a fortnight, and then go ahead and hijack it > after that if you have no response (and tell them in the mail that > this is what you will do). > > > Regards, > Roger Is there a guideline or policy for such hard-to-reach Developers with regard to hi-jacking or NMU? -K
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