On 10/12/09 07:02, Charles Plessy wrote:
Fixing bugs is very welcome, especially RC ones. Actually, you can save time to fix more RC bugs by not fixing the less important ones in the packages that you try to rescue :) I still recommend to not include a new upstream release in the NMU you are proposing. Especially because the package is poorly maintained: the side effect of the NMU is to rescue the package from removal, so if nobody feels responsible for it, it is safer to not introduce changes that can introduce new bugs.
Sorry to say, but this is counterproductive. AFAICS the new upstream version works better than the old one, and it includes almost all bug fixes done for Debian. If you suggest to ignore upstream's new version and add patches to the old version instead, just because the package maintainer is not interested anymore, then this leads to just another dead package. I want to do an NMU _because_ the package is poorly maintained. libkarma has to be rescued. There is no alternative to this package. Regards Harri