On Fri 17 May 2019 at 20:20:03 +0000, Riccardo Paolo Bestetti wrote: > > You could also consider just applying the patches which work for you > > and getting on with life. Bugs have been reported and not responded > > to. You have done your part; now it is up to someone else who is in > > a position to do something about it. > I was only trying to help, or at least find out if I could do it > easily enough. It seemed like the right thing to do.
I understood that and it is an honorable intention. However, the BTS is a main point of contact between ordinary users and maintainers. If there is no outcome there, the channels of communication are limited. > > Note that the Package Salvaging process "..is only intended for > > actively taking over maintainership." How an ordinary user would > > start the process doesn't appear to be documented. > Actually, it is documented pretty well! It's called an "NMU" [1]. Indeed, an NMU is documented, but it is a process not open to users as a whole. -- Brian.
