On 20 Jan 2004, David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> wrote: > OK, I don't know how long these things usually take, but the > evolution package maintainer seems to have gone on a very long > vacation. There has been practically no activity since last > October, despite the fact that bug #198660 contains an (obvious) > patch to fix bugs that affects all 64-bit platforms. That kind of delay is not unheard-of. I thought Kitame was generally pretty good though. > Can anyone on this list do something about it? It looks like the patch is not Debian-specific so you might have much better luck passing it straight to the upstream Evolution developers. If they accept it, you can add the 'pending' (?) tag and a note to the bug. It's generally better not to have Debian-specific patches so probably all the maintainer would do is pass it upstream. Sometimes they're not sufficiently confident with the source to know whether a patch is good or not. There are conditions where somebody else can upload the package, but I don't think this qualifies. http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-nmu -- Martin
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