Maintainer of package joystick may be missing

[laszlo kajan <kajla@bioinfo.pl>]

Dear Debian MIA Team,

I made a small patch for the jscal.c in the joystick package.

I then tried to contact the maintainer, Edward Betts (edward@debian.org)
on 09/17/2007, with no success.

As recommended on the page 'Debian Developer's Reference Chapter 7 /
Dealing with inactive and/or unreachable maintainers', I tried to gather
information on Edward Betts:

- his debian home page http://people.debian.org/~edward/ does not seem
to have content newer than 08-Dec-2005

- according to
http://asdfasdf.debian.net/~tar/bugstats/?edward%40debian.org, he has
not uploaded anything for two years

- there are 2 patches against hist joystick package that are not
included, the latest dates from 01 Nov 2005

- searching for Edward Betts on google, I have not noticed anything
after 2005

Unfortunately going to the developers' LDAP database
(https://db.debian.org/) did not yield the date when he last posted to a
Debian mailing list (this was suggested in the Developers' Reference).

Please show me the way I can have my patch included in jscal.c of the
joystick package. I believe it is useful and I immediately wanted to
share it with others. This however turns out to be a lot more difficult
than I expected. Edward Betts seems to be unavailable for almost two
years now, and so there is nobody to apply my - or the other 2 in the
queue - patch to the source.

I thank you for your kind help in advance.

Best regards,

Laszlo Kajan