Re: How-To: Politely ask after seemingly-abandoned package
On Sunday 11 March 2001 05:54, idalton@ferret.phonewave.net wrote:
> It would appear that gcc-m68k-linux is abandoned. There are several
It would also appear that xmame, xmame-x, xmame-fx and xmame-gl are
abandoned. It's six months behind on upstream releases, and its got a couple
of long-standing bugs.
> I would like to ask for maintainership, on the assumption that the
> current maintainer (Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>) is no longer
> actively maintaining it. The package does have a serious policy
(same maintainer). Can we assume that he simply dropped of the face of the
earth? Ferret, Aaron and me have packages from the same maintainer, which are
unmaintained.
> But I just seem to be unable to ask something like this without coming
> across as being rude..
I sent him an email four days ago (or maybe three). Haven't gotten a reply
yet...
It's a shame when people don't orphan their packages.. In this case, nobody
wants to be impolite, thereby slowing down the adoption process. But I'm not
sure if a "keepalive" system would be feasible.. What do others think?
Rgds
Kenneth
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