On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:16:56AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 04:57:14PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > what can we do if the maintainer doesn't admit his lack of time or his > > lack of skills/knowledge? My understanding is that in Debian, we are > > stuck, right? I believe that was the message of Chris: we don't really > > have procedures to take over a package, others than convincing the > > maintainer. > We have hijacks, we have the tech committee: weapons of last resort. "Hijacks" are what they say on the tin. That's not a tool that should be part of the toolkit, even as a weapon of last resort. We have a procedure for orphaning packages whose maintainers are inactive, and we have the TC to arbitrate disputes about who should maintain a given package. Hijacking is just plain antisocial, and not something that we as a project should tolerate. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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