Re: Advice on use of patch system while hacking

[Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu>]

On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 11:08 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 01:30:41PM -0700, Ross Boylan a écrit :
> > 
> > It's not my package, and for reasons of courtesy to the maintainer and
> > (I thought) minimizing work for myself I didn't want to make any
> > unncessary changes.
> 
> Actually, since the maintainer of noweb does not seem to have made uploads for
> a long time, perhaps you can check if he is still interested or available;
I just heard back from him.  He is.  Which is good, since I'm not a
Debian Developer or Maintainer.  
> otherwise it is a good moment to take over the package or transfer it to a team
> that would like to adopt it, possibliy with more extensive modifications (for
> instance merging Ubuntu's changes).
I mentioned the Ubuntu changes to him.

Thanks.
Ross