scripsit Cyril Brulebois: [...] > The Right Thing to do is to contact the maintainers first. And it is not > like the Games Team were totally unresponsive, especially when it comes > to handling copyright-related problems (see Miriam's — in particular but > not only — incredible work bugging upstreams to clarify their license / > consider relicensing). > > > > is to do a non-DD NMU and let the Games Team sponsor it if they > > > want... it seemed silly to duplicate the work. > > What about letting the team some time to react and fix its package? [...] Hey Games Team, I'm sorry about the confusion here. Neil's perplexing hostility toward me seems unfortunately to have set the tone for discussion. Let me clarify a few things: 1) I'm not a DD so I can't _really_ do an NMU. I made an NMU package for my own personal use, fixing the problems I identified. I filed bugs, assigning severity as I understood was appropriate (and I stand by assigning Serious severity to violating policy MUSTs). The I uploaded my package to mentors.debian.net and sent e-mails mentioning that it was there, and that if they wanted to the Games Team could simply sponsor the upload -- or do whatever they wanted to with it. I specifically did _not_ request to have anyone else sponsor the upload; that would have been grossly inappropriate and I am displeased to think that anyone should have thought that was my objective. 2) I could have posted three separate patches to the three bugs I'd filed -- or I could just upload a package from which the maintainer could do a quick diff and see what's there. I thought making a ready-to-upload package available might ease the workload on the Games Team -- but only, of course, if the Team accepted it. Again, I'm sorry about the confusion. I'm just trying to be helpful :) -- Thanasis Kinias Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, and Instructor, Professional Enhancement Programs Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. . Je ne viens d'aucun pays, d'aucune cité, d'aucune tribu. Je suis fils de la route, ma patrie est caravane, et ma vie la plus inattendue des traversées. -- Amin Maalouf, _Léon l'Africain_
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