Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages
]] Svante Signell
> How to solve the following problem: Assume a package with wishlist
> bugs filed lagging behind upstream and the maintainer refuses to
> package any newer upstream, not even into experimental. And in general
> there is an interest (from several people) in having the new upstream
> versions packaged. Can this package become salvaged in some way by the
> ITS/ITO procedure?
That sounds like a hostile takeover, something I think we really want to
avoid.
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Tollef Fog Heen
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