On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 11:44:45PM -0400, Alexander L. Belikoff wrote: > I am still willing to take over the package maintenance. If that's ok, > what should be my next step? I can obviously take 4.2.7-4 from unstable > and release it as 4.2.7-5 with updated Maintainer's header. Is that the > right way to go? Well, if you find someone to sponsor such an upload for you then you are done. :) However, I'd greatly welcome if some more meaningful changes / improvements were applied, especially since I've seen people who did nothing else but claiming a package by sticking their name to it, who then didn't respond to bugs or package a new upstream release for years, yet still proudly put "Debian maintainer" in their résumé. Of course, this doesn't need to apply to you at all, but I personally prefer to see contributions instead of claims. Please see the fine debian-mentors FAQ at <http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html> as well as the Debian Policy Manual, the Developer's Reference and the New Maintainers' Guide for detailed information on how to proceed and about Debian. You'll need a clean Sid build environment for building your package, and some meaningful change(s), even if it's only some bugs the stupid previous maintainer has introduced. ;) Cheers, Flo
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