Re: Request for sponsoring (stretch-backports )

[Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>]

The maintainer might know about issues we are not aware, so the sponsoring from him is usually easier/more trivial than

a backport from somebody that is not aware of the package history.

This is why it is usually preferred to have the maintainers' opinions before backporting stuff touched by somebody else.

I didn't say it is impossible, but with active maintainer better ask them.

G.

Il martedì 23 ottobre 2018, 17:58:54 CEST, Sascha Girrulat <sascha@girrulat.de> ha scritto:

Hi,

On 23.10.18 15:38, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:

> Usually the best way is to contact directly the involved maintainers (in
> cc to this emai>
> If they don't care/answer, an RFS bug might be the best thing to do, to
> avoid emails getting lost

ah, thx. I thought that backports has not be done by the original
maintainer itself. I had read the contribute page but i missed the last
part in the maintainer section ;-).

If i understand it right backports could managed from other
maintainers/uploaders if the original maintainer would/could not do it?

Regards
Sascha