On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 07:34:34AM +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On April 16, 2018 7:10:34 AM UTC, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > >Scott Kitterman writes: > >> Personally, I think people should be more annoyed at the people doing > >> the hijacking than the one they did it to. > > > >I thought this is called "salvage" now? > > > >There might have been some miscommunications, but given an acceptable > >alternative is just requesting the removal of a package with open RC > >bugs that hasn't been uploaded for a time, isn't just salvaging the > >package by adding oneself as a maintainer better? > > > >And if this is the preferred outcome, shouldn't the salvaging be > >"easier" than just requesting removal (which is just one bug report > >away)? > > I'd think an attempt to contact the maintainer first would be a > prerequisite to it potentially being salvage and not a hijack. > > Perhaps they attempted and failed and it was only miscommunication, > but neither of them have spoken up yet, so we don't know. Indeed we don't know about communication attempts on upload the package.
I do hope that this escalation learns us to file bugs like Subject: re-enter testing Package: gjots2 Version: 2.4.1-2 Hi, Previous upload of gjots2 was done 4 years ago. And removed from testing 5 months ago. This bugreport is to announce (and document) my intention doing an upload. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven
