Re: how to adopt a non-orphaned package?
It seems this would be relevant:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa
The basic procedure is to try to politely get in touch with them
first. They might either update the package, or orphan it so you can
take over. There might be reasons for the inactivity, or why it hasn't
been updated recently. If they don't respond in a month you contact
the MIA team.
-Steve
On 28 April 2012 04:18, Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:10:08 Charles Plessy wrote:
>> You can for instance send an "Intend to Hijack" email to debian-devel, and
>> CC it to the persons who contributed NMUs and patches in the BTS, explaining
>> what you already explained here, and add that the package has already been
>> NMUed 2 times. Then, get the package sponsored with you and others as
>> maintainers. You can keep the current maintainer in the list as well, to
>> show that he is welcome to work on the package if he can come back to
>> Debian.
>
> Thank you for all your advices.
> However it appears to me that word "Hijack" is perhaps too strong due to
> negative meaning attached. This situation looks more like legitimate adoption
> / taking over the package.
>
> Just a thought: probably some form of semi-automatic check for MIA maintainers
> (similar to annual DM ping) could be useful in case of total lack of
> maintainer's activity neither in regards to uploads nor in mail lists...
>
> All the best,
> Dmitry.
>
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