Re: Intend to intend to hijack SeaView.

2006-09-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Christoph Berg wrote: If you hijack the package, please do it properly - do not let the old maintainer rot in the Uploaders: field. Inactive maintainers as co-maintainers are a pita for MIA tracking. Ahh well, never thought about this - thanks for the hint. So just keep t

Re: Intend to intend to hijack SeaView.

2006-09-20 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Andreas Tille 2006-09-19 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The situation you described qualifies for a group maintained upload. > You might keep the original maintainer in the Uploaders field for the > sake of politeness because a complete hijack is regarded rude (even > if the facts you describe would jus

Re: Intend to intend to hijack SeaView.

2006-09-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Charles Plessy wrote: Therefore, unless I am told not to do so, and of course unless I am wrong to thing that Brian Furry is MIA, I would like to put the package under the responsability of the "Debian-Med packaging team" (see http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-med/ an

Intend to intend to hijack SeaView.

2006-09-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I did not find a match for "mia" or "hijack" in the tables of content of the policy or of the developper's reference. If Brian R Furry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) were MIA, I would like to hijak his "seaview" package, for which the upstream author has made improvements that allow to move the pa