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Re: RFS: krecipes (updated package)



Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
2009/5/19 Matthias Julius <mdeb@julius-net.net>:
Matthias Julius <mdeb@julius-net.net> writes:

I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0~beta2-1
of my package "krecipes".

It builds these binary packages:
krecipes   - recipes manager for KDE
krecipes-data - recipes manager for KDE - data files
krecipes-doc - recipes manager for KDE - documentation

 Krecipes is a KDE application designed to manage recipes. It can help you to
 do your shopping list, search through your recipes to find what you can do
 with available ingredients and a diet helper. It can also import or export
 recipes from files in various format (eg RecipeML or Meal-Master) or from
 databases.

The package appears to be almost (see below) lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 473367, 478030, 513860

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/k/krecipes
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/k/krecipes/krecipes_1.0~beta2-1.dsc

I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

I have to give you some background information.  Maintainer for
krecipes is actually "Debian KDE Extras Team
<pkg-kde-extras@lists.alioth.debian.org>".  Unfortunately, this is list
is mostly dead except from forwarded messages from BTS or PTS.  A
number of mails I (and others) sent there got no response.

Krecipes has not been maintained for over 2 years and the MIA team has
requested the removal of the only Uploader a couple of months ago
(#513860).  Therefore, I would consider krecipes effectively orphaned,
allthough not officially.  Are there any formal steps I should
undertake to take over maintainership for this package?
I would really appreciate if someone could either help me to get my
krecipes package into Debian.

I am just not quite sure whether it is OK to hijack a package like
that from an unresponsive packaging team.  Should I ask QA to orphan
the package?

Matthias



I'm not a DD, but I think the correct way is to ping MIA team about it
and then after 2 weeks time you ping them again and they do a little
chat and come up with a solutions usally in your favor. Try that,
cause they record stuff in wnpp and then you can go on and adopt
stuff.

i think the email was mia@debian.org but double check that
(Developer's Reference / New maintainer's guide one of them had a
chapter dealing with unresponsive developers.)

The problem there is that you can't MIA a whole team. I'm currently talking with one of the KDE folks and someone was already supposed to pick up krecipes so I'm trying to find out.

Thanks,

Barry deFreese
Debian QA


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