On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 10:34:24AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > In the past I have maintained some important packages by doing regular > NMUs when the maintainer is not responsive (including emails asking to > take over the package). So just because the *maintainer* hasn't made an > upload in a long time doesn't mean that nobody cares about the package.
At DebConf in Portland there was a rough consensus on a package salvaging workflow, where after one has done a couple of NMUs on a package without seeing any activity from the maintainer, one can do a NMU with maximum delay that changes the maintainer field, taking over the package. I seem to recall rediscussing it again in Heidelberg and finding even more consensus there, but it never seems to have made it to actual usage. I'd like it if salvaging packages this way actually became standard practice in Debian. Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enr...@enricozini.org>
