Re: Orphaned Packages With Wrong Maintainer
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:02:12PM -0400, Alexander Winston wrote:
> Hi, I came across <URI:http://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html> yesterday and
> am interested in helping in any way that I can, but I am not a Debian
> developer and could not find any directions to follow in the
> documentation related to fixing bugs in orphaned packages. If anyone
> could point me to the relevant section in the documentation that I
> overlooked or can tell me how I can assist, I would be much obliged.
Do the bugfix in the same way as you would for a regularly maintained
package. If the package is properly orphaned, the QA group will get the
patch you send to the BTS. If the package is improperly orphaned (which is
the list you gave above) then you'll need to notify debian-qa@l.d.o that
you've got a patch, tested it, et al. If you also mention that it's
improperly orphaned, that'll also be an added spur to make an upload -
Andrew Pollock is currently doing a mass Maintainer change, and I'll get
into it again once I've finished off my studies (only a couple of
weeks/assessments to go).
- Matt
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