Re: Newbie: "Review request" on an updated LIRC package

[Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>]

and please note: there is currently an RC bug open against the package.
you might want to help fixing that bug as a start.

cheers,

G





Il Venerdì 30 Ottobre 2015 12:14, Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it> ha scritto:
BTW if you really think as upstream that the package is in a bad state, and the maintainer are not answering to mails

please contact MIA team 
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MIA
and based on the issues on the current version (e.g. does the current debian version has serious/security bugs?)
you can even raise some bugs severity.

If the new release brings new features, and it is a leaf package I guess it is worth waiting a month or two for MIA team
to get the package officially orphaned (then you can take over the package maintenance)

cheers,

G.






Il Venerdì 30 Ottobre 2015 11:27, Alec Leamas <leamas.alec@gmail.com> ha scritto:
On 30/10/15 09:51, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi Alec,
> 

>>
>> I'm not seeking any argument as to why the Debian packages are still
>> 0.9.0. It's the debian packager's decision. Full stop.
> 
> 
> the argument might be: we were in the freeze because of jessie release at that time,
> so no new packages have been uploaded yet.

FYI, 0.9.0 (current version) was released March, 2011. 0.9.1 happened
June, 2014.


> and the maintainer retired a few months ago.

Ah...


Cheers!

--alec

PS: Will process review remarks later. Thanks for those!