On Thursday 15,October,2009 08:30 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 03:54:02PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : >> On Wednesday 14 October 2009 15:42:21 Harald Dunkel wrote: >>> >>> I want to do an NMU _because_ the package is poorly maintained. libkarma >>> has to be rescued. There is no alternative to this package. >> >> There is a established procedure for taking maintainership for a package from >> a non-responsive maintainer. If you'd like to take maintainership, please >> start that process. In the meantime a suitable NMU should be prepared until >> (if) you become the maintainer. >> >> If you don't have time, I wonder if this is a good place for collab-maint to >> step in? > > Hi Harald, > > your NMU would increase the quality of the current package, but would not make > it better maintained, since it is de facto abandonned. Such packages are indeed > in danger of being removed from Debian. We have to be realistic and do what our > manpower allows us to. > > If you really think that libkarma has to be rescued (and there are for sure > good reasons), but do not want to maintain it, just lead this package to a new > home, for instance as indicated by Boyd Stephen, and do not hesitate to ask for > help on this list. Such “QA” work is also really welcome and appreciated, as > bugfixing is. They are two sides of the same coin. > > I hope this does not sound too bureaucratic, but this is a much more long-term > solution to a problem which is not that the package is outdated, but that it is > abandonned. > > Have a nice day, > Just FYI, libkarma-cil be a build-dependency of Banshee, eventhough the karma-sharp.pc file has been broken for ages and Banshee hadn't actually had Karma support since before 1.4.3 (current version=1.5.1) due to this. If nobody else is willing to take care of it, how about putting it under the Debian CLI Libraries Team? That would take care of the whole libkarma being unmaintained issue. If Harald would join the team, he can maintain it there, and if he's busy someone else, myself included, could fill in for him. -- Kind regards, Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411) Ubuntu Contributing Developer
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