On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:28:39 +0200, Alexander Toresson wrote: > > - The changelog doesn't mention if this is a hostile takeover, a > > friendly salvage or whatever of the package. > > I want this to be as friendly as possible, but so far Joe hasn't been > very responsive at all. In fact, even this RFS didn't get any response > from Joe, and the last response I got to any e-mail I've sent to him > was in late 2009. I'm simply not sure how to approach this, but if > this doesn't get his attention, a "hostile takeover" might be > necessary. How is this kind of situation usually handled in Debian? There was a long discussion about this in May/June on debian-devel. One message that summarizes the situation is https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/06/msg00048.html The general information is in the Developer's Reference: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa Cf. also http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/MIATeam and http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MIA Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Beatles
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