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Re: Process to adopt moribund packages?



On Saturday 12 March 2011 14.50:53 Neil Williams wrote:
> roy hills <royhills@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I know the current package maintainer can file an RFA, or orphan the
> > package, but is there a process for a new maintainer to take the
> > package over if the current maintainer doesn't update it but doesn't
> > request adoption?
> 
> Ask someone on debian-qa@lists.debian.org about the specific package.

Contacting the current maintainer should IMO always be the (obvious) first 
step - if you feel the package is neglected, ask if he would mind if you'd 
take over.

cheers
-- vbi

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