On Thursday, February 06, 2014 13:59:59 Sebastian Reichel wrote: > Hi, > > There have been multiple new upstream releases for stunnel4 and the > package has gathered quite some bugs without any feedback from its > maintainer. Looking at Rodrigo's QA page [0] his last actions were > quite some time ago (2012) and most packages would have gathered RC > bugs without the help of some fellow Debian Developers doing NMUs. > > Lennart Weller has prepared an updated package for stunnel4, which > does not fit the default NMU criteria (e.g. being minimal) and is > also willing to take over the package. I would sponsor the package > for him once Rodrigo's status is clear. > > So here are my questions: > * Does anyone know Rodrigo's whereabouts/status? > * Can the MIA team take this over? > > [0] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rodrigo&comaint=yes > > -- Sebastian NMUs don't necessarily need to be minimalistic -- for instance packaging new versions is something that can be done with NMUs. This is admittedly not terribly clear and I raised this question in #672198 which hasn't had any activity for almost two years. For cases where the maintainer is unresponsive for an extended period, I'd recommend requesting a new version via a 'wishlist' bug, then releasing a new version as a -0.1 NMU. Others (myself included) have done this successfully. As always, thanks for your continued work in Debian. ;-) -- Chris -- Chris Knadle Chris.Knadle@coredump.us
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