On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 04:49:23PM +0200, Giovanni Toraldo wrote:Il 27/03/2011 16:32, Thomas Goirand ha scritto:I've very surprised that nobody jumped on the package to upload it to Squeeze Backports. I use Pidgin every day, and it's a very important package for me. Who's your usual sponsor? Isn't he interested in continuing to support you?I'm a novice, that's my first RFS, and I haven't checked out who used to upload pidgin backports before: I've simply made the package for me and uploaded for others.
I believe that the thing you should first do, is ask the initial Debian maintainer what is his thoughts about a backport. Just pushing a backport like that, without any communication, is very bad practice, IMHO. What's just below proves me right...
On 03/27/2011 10:53 PM, James Vega wrote:
I'm not sure if Michael Giannoulis is who has commonly uploaded pidgin backports, but he did post a RFS[0] 3 days before your request.
Thomas