Enrico Zini wrote: >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 remember leading a discussion about it at DC12, even. >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. Definitely. But we still seem to have a few overly-territorial people failing to maintain their packages. Not 100% sure what to do about that, as that same subset of developers are also not likely to read threads on d-devel. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html
