Territorialism (was: Unmaintained Packages)
Marc Haber wrote:
>On 09 Aug 2003 11:54:59 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow
><brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>>The maintainer is still alive and kicking. If you are intrested in
>>taking over ifupdown or become coauthor ask him. If he says no pster
>>him about the bugs till he gives up :)
>
>I have been talking to ifupdown's maintainer for a lot of times, but I
>currently don't see any chance to get the (fully backwards-compatible)
>patch from Bug #88948 into the mainstream package before sarge's
>release. Which is a real pity.
Does he (/she) have specific objections to the patch?
Or is it just a not-invented-here attitude?
I've seen a *lot* of complaints about territorialism by Debian package
maintainers. ("No, this is my package! I won't give it up! I am still
maintaining it!", even when it hasn't built from source for a
year.) Can anyone think of an institutional way to address this? I
can't offhand, but I'm sure someone is smarter than me. :-D
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