Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages
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- Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages
- From: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:51:23 +0100
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- In-reply-to: <CANTw=MNCgtiFWg9XC6ZJf9Pp+O67njyxf=xP7Uyv6GOdy0Z3jg@mail.gmail.com> (Michael Gilbert's message of "Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:16:56 -0400")
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]] Michael Gilbert
> mlocate: http://bugs.debian.org/669368 (new upstream could have been
> pushed via nmu before the freeze, but it was prepared too late)
> <many others I'm sure>
The suggested NMU that does random changes like changing the packaging
to 3.0 (quilt) and adding an uploader? Is that even a serious
suggestion?
The new upstream release did not include any particularly compelling
changes for wheezy, which is why I did not update to the newer upstream
version.
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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
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