On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 22:19 -0200, UlisesVitulli wrote: > Hi debian-devel, > > I've been talking with the maintainer[1] of xchat-xsys[2] Private conversation ? > for several > bugs I don't see "several bugs". http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=xchat-xsys > and many new upstream releases hold back on Debian, Two upstream releases. grep ^v xsys-2.2.0/ChangeLog | head -n 3 v2.2.0 v2.1.0 v2.0.9 Please report a bug to the bts requesting the newest upstream release to be packaged in Debian. > and he > communicated me that he is not longer interested on maintaining it any > more. Private conversation ? > Unfortunately, my suggestion of orphaning the pkg made no difference > to the current maintainer, as he showed no cares at all for it. Maybe the maintainer does not agree about orphaning ? > > With a modest popcon of 242[3] and a bug related to a dep, rendering > the pkg in an unusable state, Please report this "bug related to a dep" in the bts. > this package needs attention. I suggest that you use the bts to document that in public. > If there are no objections, I object. > I plan to upload a new pkg Please follow the NMU procedure if you want to update the package yourself. The current "0-day NMU upload policy" might be applicable depending on the severity of the bugs to be fixed. > which, not only > solves the critical bug I mentioned, Please report this "critical bug" in the bts. > it incorporates about 2 years and > a half of updates, Almost 2 years. And, yes, that's a long time, giving the impression that the maintainer is no longer interested, or at least temporarily not active. > solving two bugs more listened on BTS. > If you have fixes for existing bugs in the bts, then please post the fixes to the bts. Regards, Bart Martens
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