Re: Lucas Kanashiro and Athos Ribeiro salvaged my package
Am 16. April 2018 09:43:10 MESZ schrieb Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>:
>Hi,
>
>On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 09:10:34AM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>> Scott Kitterman writes:
>> > Personally, I think people should be more annoyed at the people
>doing
>> > the hijacking than the one they did it to.
>>
>> I thought this is called "salvage" now?
>
>I remember that this discussion comes up quite regularly (no statistic
>but to my feeling once a year). I'd love if we could give fix rules to
>the process of salvaging a package (or am I missing that this was just
>done). I think the preconditions should contain something like:
>
> (
> * RC buggy (mandatory feature for salvaging a package)
> or
> * No uploads for > 365 days *and* lagging behind upstream
> )
> and
> * Public attempt to contact the former maintainer (be it as
> response to the RC bug or for instance CCed to debian-devel
> list)
>
>It should be also mandatory that the salvaged package gets Vcs-fields
>pointing to salsa.debian.org to enable any interested person to
>contribute. The former Maintainer may not be removed from d/control.
>If the salvage is done by a team that should be used as maintainer and
>the old maintainer moved to Uploaders. The changelog owner of the
>salvage upload should be added to Uploaders in any case to take over
>responsibility for the work.
>
>Opinions?
>
>Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
Was mentioned on the salvaging packages BoF at Montreal: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/09/msg00654.html
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