Hi,
> > I have been trying to get in contact with the maintainer of a package, but
> > they have not answered at all since my last mail a month ago. What should I
> > do about that?
>
> I'd probably wait another month and then contact the MIA team pointing
> them to the bug(s) I filed in the Debian bug tracking system
> (bugs.debian.org) that have gone unanswered for those two months.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MIA
>
> However, just to set your expectations, unless the updates needed are highly
> important (not just new features) the best you could hope for would be a
> very long process to get the package declared orphaned. Then you'd be
> hoping that some other Debian developer would take it on and be more
> open to applying your patches.
The ultimate goal being to get things for Debian users, what I usually try
in such cases (leaving some time between steps):
1) Report a bug describing the problem
2) Provide a patch that fixes that bug (and use the fixed package
in a private build) in the bug report or as a salsa MR
3) Offer to prepare an upload ready to sponsor with the fix
included, in the bug report.
4) Prepare an upload and ask for sponsorship on mentors.d.o
If this a of interest for another Debian Developper, this usually gets
sponsored.
Thanks,
Alex
