Re: Adopt an abandoned ITP?
Obviously, you should give the ITP/RFP bug author much more than a few
days to respond... Have you mentioned your interest to the bug page?
I would try to contact the bug author at least a few more times.
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu> wrote:
> Mathias Ertl <mati@fsinf.at> writes:
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>> There is a package I desperately want in Debian and there already is an ITP
>> for it that is almost a year old. There wasn't any activity on it except that
>> the author reverted the automatic ITP -> RFP conversion after 6 monts of
>> inactivity. I did write to the bug-author a few days ago if he still intends
>> to package it but haven't received a response yet.
>>
>> So in general: What is appropriate the procedure in adopting such a bug? I
>> don't want to 'hijack' anything. How long should I wait for a response from
>> the author? Should I file a new bug or change the owner of the old one?
>
> This largely depends on which ITP bug we're talking about, as there
> might be good reasons the ITP is still pending. Without more
> information, though, no reasonable suggestion can be made, in my
> opinion.
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