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Re: How to adopt a dead package?



On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 02:05:25PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Howdy! bozohttpd was removed from Debian a while ago because of a
> lack of activity by the upstream maintainer and some outstanding
> security issues, but said maintainer re-awakened and fixed a bunch of
> bugs (including the outstanding security issues).
> 
> If I wanted to adopt the package and get it back into Debian, what
> would I need to do? I haven't been a package maintainer before. I
> presume there's a document somewhere I can read with detailed
> instructions?
Generic instructions: https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers
Reintroducing packages: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#reintroducing-pkgs

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