Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?
On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:44:36 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:21:13AM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote:
>> 2013/12/16 Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>:
>> >>> Thanks for working on xbmc. BTW, Are you in touch with Andres about
>> >>> that?
>> >> I tried to reach him and team-xbmc@lists.launchpad.net several times
>> >> without success.
>> >> Now the MIA Team is tracking him, too.
>> >> Unfortunately it takes ~10 weeks to have his packages orphaned and
>> >> then I can adopt and update xbmc and libcec (a dependency of xbmc).
>> >
>> > Are you part of XBMC-Team ? If so simply list yourself in the
>> > Uploaders field.
>> No, I tried to reach them several times, but none of the _Launchpad_
>> team members replied.
>
> That's probably a drawback of small teams and even worse small teams
> maintaining their stuff somewhere else than alioth.debian.org. In
> Debian Med and Debian Science we insist on having packages maintained at
> alioth.debian.org and there are written policies how to maintain
> packages. If I would be a member of Debian Multimedia I would insist in
> some similar workflow and actively invite people to join Debian
> Multimedia which gives more flexibility.
I may have misread this, but in the Multimedia team we do have such
policies.
Unfortunately, the current xbmc repository conflicts with such policies,
as it doesn't include the upstream source.
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging
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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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