On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:35:02AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > I've taken a look at the bug logs and I'm very disappointed with the > maintainer's lack of engagement. There seem to be a lot of people who > are interested in helping maintain this package. > Would any of the keen people we see involved in this bug report > consider contesting the maintainership of the package ? The Committee > has the power in s6.1(2) of the Constitution to > Decide ... who should be the maintainer for a package > but of course only when developers disagree. > Jesus, you write to Sebastien: > In a previous conversation with me you pointed out that there are > others downloaders that a user can decide to select, but failing to > depend on at least one of the ones provided as a package by Debian > renders the package unusable. Which is not acceptable. > Can we see that conversation ? Are the emails archived anywhere ? > The control file at the moment says: > Recommends: curl, wget > which is definitely wrong since at most one of these is used. > Sebastien, what is your opinion of Mike O'Connor's patch ? I understand that this bug has been (silently) fixed in the latest version of apt-file. Any objections to reassigning the bug back to apt-file and closing this issue out? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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