Hello Charles, thanks for your feedback. ---- Am Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:11:19 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>: > this is not accurate: the package has been orphaned by the QA team and the > maintainer answered that he is not inactive. He is also the upstream maintainer I have read the answers of the (old) maintainer and on the other side I have seen he have made nothing since the last 4 years with the debian package. So I have asked the (old) maintainer (who is also the upstream develo- per) about maintaining the package in debian. He answers me on 10 Nov 2009 (in German): > das freut mich! Auch ich fände es schade, wenn das Tool aus Debian > entfernt würde, habe aber momentan aus beruflichen und privaten Gründen > einfach keine Zeit, mich um das Debian-Paket zu kümmern. > > Sie dürfen das Paket gerne in Debian übernehmen. Ich freue mich, wenn > Sie sich darum kümmern. This means he have not enough time for maintaining and he provide my ITA for the package backup2l. > and released a new version 12 days ago. He distributes a Debian package on the > SourceForge website. That is right. But he have done it, because I have asked him on 15 Nov 2009 for a new version before I make a new Debian package. And now I have taken his new released version for making the debian package. And I updated all files in the debian directory to new standards and bump to Standard 3.8.3. > I recommend to contact him to see how you can work together. Maybe the main That is all done in a very good manner. I have a good contact to the upstream developer. > issue is sponsorship? I do not know if he is aware of the debian-mentors > mailing list. The only need is: I need someone sponsoring the upload of this package. Fondest regards, Joachim Wiedorn
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