Re: Getting a patch applied with an unresponsive maintainer

2022-05-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 04:39:04PM +0100, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: Exactly what I needed, thank you! I hadn't known about the -mentors list, and I wasn't sure going straight to -devel was appropriate, but I think that gives me my next steps here :) Good luck! -- Please do not CC me for listmail.

Re: Getting a patch applied with an unresponsive maintainer

2022-05-03 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 10:22:29AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 09:19:36AM +0100, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > So I guess the question now is: what, if anything, can I do to get that > > code into a build and out the door and onto the Debian package > > repositories? > > C

Re: Getting a patch applied with an unresponsive maintainer

2022-05-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 09:19:36AM +0100, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: So I guess the question now is: what, if anything, can I do to get that code into a build and out the door and onto the Debian package repositories? Can you prepare an NMU patch (which incorporates the fix patch, as well as a chang

Re: Getting a patch applied with an unresponsive maintainer

2022-05-03 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 11:03:01AM -0400, songbird wrote: > > Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > i've sent a private reply since i'm not sure gmane sent the > Cc: i requested. It didn't :( > ... > > Can anyone give any advice about what my next steps might be if I want > > to get this patch made more wi

Re: Getting a patch applied with an unresponsive maintainer

2022-05-02 Thread songbird
Adam Dinwoodie wrote: ... > Can anyone give any advice about what my next steps might be if I want > to get this patch made more widely available? in looking at the following i see there is a request for help and that not much else has happened. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug

Getting a patch applied with an unresponsive maintainer

2022-05-02 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Hello! I've found a bug in the dhcpcd5 package[0]. I've submitted a patch[1], and I'd like to look at getting it included in the official package, not least so I can stop maintaining my own local patches. However -- unlike when I've gone through this process after reporting bugs in other package