Hi, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> I found that the package git-core has several outstanding bugs filed > against it. Many of them are poorly tagged, and their status has not > been updated in quite some time. It might be helpful to read this: [1] > After that, I tried asking > the maintainer to make a new release incorporating bugfixes. > Unfortunately, the maintainer's email address listed on the Debian > bugs page seems to be broken. FWIW, while he does not always respond immediately, I’ve found Gerrit to be generally responsive and thoughtful. Sometimes a new release is packaged the day it is tagged upstream; rarely does it take more than a couple of weeks. > Therefore, I would like to politely urge > someone with some additional time on their hands to contact the > maintainer/ adopt the package. I do not think a new maintainer is warranted, but I do think someone is needed to help deal with bugs. Thanks for your efforts in this regard so far. Thanks for bringing this up, Jonathan [1] http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/a_clean_BTS_is_a_sign_of_a_sick_mind/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
