Re: Kaffeine

[Hendrik Sattler <post@hendrik-sattler.de>]

Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 07:00 schrieb Anders Ellenshøj Andersen:
> Tirsdag 28 februar 2006 01:44 skrev Matej Cepl:
> > Anders E. Andersen wrote:
> > > Some of them are way old, and simply doesn't apply to version 0.7.1 and
> > > later. Some are problems with other packages. Some have already been
> > > fixed and not closed on Debian.
> >
> > Well, the problem is that kaffeine's maintainer (originally, a student at
> > the university where I study just now -- but he's already gone) is MIA.
> > Does anybody know the procedure how to declare package as non-maitained,
> > when the maintainer don't even bother to orphan it?
>
> Did anyone try to email him?
>
> Anyway, if it is unmaintained, it probably should not be in unstable
> either. Still.. Plenty of packages have hundreds of old bugs hanging around
> and nobody is complaining about those.. Sometimes I feel like the
> maintainers have just given up.

kaffeine is in stable and thus should stay in sid as upstream is still active, 
isn't it?
Procedure would be to contact the maintainer first and after a timeout to 
contact the Debian-QA-Team. They would orphane the package with a bug in the 
wnpp package and another Maintainer can step in (change the "O:" to "ITA:").
While that's going on, you can find a sponsor for doing an NMU (non-maintainer 
update).

HS

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