Re: taking over gnucash packaging
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>
> > Since this is my first Debian package, I have a few questions. What is
> > the best way to handle taking over a package if the previous maintainer
> > cannot be contacted? I am not implying that John Goerzen is off the air,
> > but I haven't heard from him about the package so far, and the 1.6.1
> > package is three months old and obsolete for two months.
>
> A new maintainer forcibliy taking over a package from a long-standing
> maintainer? This doesn't sit will with me.
Well, I don't really think I'm trying to force anything. I just want to
find out: how can I tell if the old author is really working on it, how
can I tell if anyone else is working on it, and if neither how can I work
on it.
-jwb
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