Re: libc5

[Brian Bassett <brian@butterfly.ml.org>]

>> > I haven't heard anything from Helmut Geyer in months, except for a
>> > message on Sep 24 saying he was back.  (Apparently he wasn't).
>
>I think it's safe to assume that Helmut is gone (from Debian).  IMO,
>even if Helmut were to reappear today, he would have to re-establish
>his presence for quite some time beforing being trusted again with
>such important packages as libc.
>
>> > I think it is time to officially orphan his packages, so that they can
>> > find new maintainers.
>> > 
>> > As far as I can tell from the Packages files, this is his current list
>> > of packages:
>> > 
>> > Source fortune-mod:
>> >   fortune-mod, fortunes
>> > 
>> > Package chos

If Helmut's packages are being orphaned, I think I'd like to pick up
fortune-mod and possibly chos.  Any objections?

Brian Bassett

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