Re: GDM 2.4 in sid

[Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org>]

I've seen activitiy on bugs since then (merging, etc.), but the fact 
that he hasn't released anything on gdm, even a bugfix, in over a year, 
doesn't really reflect strongly on his maintainership of the package. 
Hopefully Ryan will reply to me some day soon and we'll find out what he 
really wants to do with the package. Until then, it's not fun being left 
in the dark, and as others pointed out, being left with no feasible 
alternative - a package named gdm2 or gdm2.4 would be rejected by the 
ftpmasters (which is basically the case now, it's just sitting there in 
limbo, neither rejected nor accepted), hijacking the package is frowned 
upon because technically Ryan is still active. People using a bajillion 
different versions of gdm packages with nowhere to report bugs to is not 
a very good alternative either, but that's what is currently happening 
because most users are rather upset with the ancient gdm package in 
unstable at present.

Christian Marillat wrote:
> > To adopt a package the current maintainer must ask for it to be adopted.
> > Package takeover attempts usually require consensus on debian-devel with the
> > maintatiner MIA. Ryan is however not MIA. He *is* actively maintaining gdm,
>
>
> Actively ? The last upload has been done the 4 Apr 2002. The BTS page
> for gdm contains :
>
> 6  important bugs
> 31 normal bugs
> 2  minor bugs
> 17 whishlist bugs
>
> The last change in the BTS has been done the 6 Apr 2002 for bug #141184
> abd I don't see any reply to a bug since this date.
>
> Then, tell me how you call that ?