Bug#859279: Updating the ygl Uploaders list

[Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu@aero.iitb.ac.in>]

Hi Nilesh,

Thank you for taking this up.  I don't use this package anymore so I am a bit
out of touch on the status of the package.

Regards,
Prabhu

On 1/31/22 22:26, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> Hi Mattia, Kumar,
> 
> Kumar, would you have any plans to adopt this?
> 
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 09:27:20 +0200 Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 12:55:35PM +0530, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>> > I am afraid I don't exactly know what to do or have the bandwidth for stepping
>> > in as a maintainer.  However, Kumar Appaiah (CC'd) said that he would be
>> able to
>> > help.
>>
>> Well, techinically you are already the maintainer.  From the current
>> package:
>>
>>     Source: ygl
>>     Priority: extra
>>     Maintainer: Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu@aero.iitb.ac.in>     Uploaders:
>> Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <rkrishnan@debian.org>
>>
>>
>> In that case, probably this package should be orphaned instead?
>> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#orphaning
> 
> Since this package was last uploaded in 2009 (~13 years ago) and the maintainer
> stated that they have no bandwidth to keep maintaining it plus Uploader has
> retired, and this had 3 RC bugs opened (for a long time), I fixed the RC bugs,
> and made the "Debian QA Team" as the package maintainer (effectively orphaning
> it) and did a upload for this package.
> The said bug that I am replying to right now has been open for 4+ years (almost
> 5) and hence from a pragmatic pov, I found it right to do.
> 
> Unless Kumar has plans of stepping in, do you think we should close this bug
> report too?
> 
> Let me know.
> 
> Regards,
> Nilesh