Re: Bug#701536: RM: subsurface -- RoQA; unmaintained package, maintainer MIA
- To: Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com>
- Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>, Ansgar Burchardt <ftpmaster@debian.org>, 701536@bugs.debian.org, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>, Robert Wolfe <robert.wolfe@robertwolfe.org>, Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>, subsurface@hohndel.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#701536: RM: subsurface -- RoQA; unmaintained package, maintainer MIA
- From: Khalid El Fathi <khalid@elfathi.fr>
- Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 19:02:22 +0100
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Hi,
Sorry to answer only now... I was busy with my work. I think I can update the package soon.
Sincerely,
Le 3 mars 2013 à 18:36, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com> a écrit :
> On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>
>>> The maintainer seems MIA since June 2012, not responding to bug
>>> reports nor direct mails.
>>> The two most recent upstream releases not packaged.
>>
>> Why would this be a reason to *remove* a package? Especially after
>> such a short time. The package hasn't even been orphaened.
>
> Well, "short time" is relative to how slow/fast things move. In this
> case, upstream is _not_ moving slow, I would say :)
>
>> I have seen packages in Debian which haven't received updates from the
>> maintainer after much longer periods.
>
> True, but let's not focus too much on that, please. This is a little bit
> different. Dirk, Linus and many more working with upstream are pushing
> things forward at higer pace than average.
>
>> This doesn't necessarrialy mean the maintainer is MIA.
>
> True. But nothing happened for many moons :)
>
>> Debian is run by volunteers and sometimes, people are busy with more
>> important things in life.
>
> Aren't we all? Volunteers and trying to also cope with the "important
> things in life"? The good thing with such a large community is that
> there's a lot of backup.
>
>> This doesn't mean that anyone has the right to immediately remove their
>> packages from Debian.
>
> True. But that doesn't mean either everyone is happy seeing things
> stalling?
>
>> I suppose Khalid will be happy to continue to work on the package
>> again once he finds the time.
>
> I certainly hope so. But, unfortunatelly, there was no sign of life from
> Khalid for a, relatively, long time. No RFHs either, AFAICT.
>
>> I don't see any need (and I think it's impolite) to pressure him in such
>> a way.
>
> I appologise, in that case. But that was not my intent. My intent is to
> find a debian maintainer/developer that has the time to work on these 2
> packages.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Cristian
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