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?