On 20040106T015818+0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On the other hand, we have many packages such as my liwc[1], which > rarely changes. [...] > I suspect that a co-maintainer would have been bored dead for that > package. A great reason for me to volunteer :) Let me take this opportunity to mention that grep-dctrl could use a backup co-maintainer. Often during my more intensive teaching sprees at the university (which come twice a year and last for a month or two each), I am unable to spend any energy to work on that package, and its bugs stay open often far too long (I do read my mail and the reports, though, so I am not MIA during those periods). (Be warned, though. Grep-dctrl is one of the two things I've done for Debian that I am really proud of, and I have an irrational attachment to it... so I'll probably be very unhappy if a co-maintainer decided to rewrite it in Perl, for example.) > On the other hand, I'm perfectly happy with a fairly low NMU threshold, > especially for such simple packages. Less effort and the same end > result: if the primary maintainer doesn't do his job, for whatever > reason, the package gets fixed by someone else. Seconded. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://www.iki.fi/gaia/
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