Dear QA team, I seek permission to adopt the package "ascii" without having recieved positive feedback from the current maintainer as listed in the PTS (CCed), please see <http://packages.qa.debian.org/ascii>. Rationale: The package is more than two years behind upstream and hasn't seen any bug handling for almost three years. I provided a complete update in form of a new .diff.gz which went completely unnoted, so I announced my ITH in the BTS. The maintainer didn't agree and claimed he'd be uploading "RSN", but three weeks have passed since without any action being taken. A more complete fact sheet about this maintainership can be found in <http://bugs.debian.org/199150>. The almost complete lack of maintainer activity strikes me as odd, for the maintainer lists "deb package development" as one of his computer skills in his resume. If you deem this hijack acceptable I'll transfer this to d-mentors, as I'd need sponsoring for any upload, please see <http://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=florian_ernst%40gmx.net> and <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?gpg_key=514B3E7C> for further info about Debian and me. If I may hijack and someone is interested in sponsoring: my current state of packaging (pbuilder / lintian / linda clean) can be found at <http://ernst.uni-hd.de/debian/ascii>. Sorry for the noise, but I think the current state of that package is simply unacceptable. Thanks for taking the time, cheers, Flo
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