Hi Vincent, On Sun, 17 May 2015 21:36:22 Vincent Cheng wrote: > I'd argue that the right approach is still to contact the MIA team and > ask them to investigate and reach out to the supposedly missing > maintainer. The thing is, either way (MIA team involved, or not) you'd > usually want to wait an indeterminate amount of time for the old > maintainer to reply before giving up anyways, so you may as well just > follow the devref guidelines. The MIA team is fairly active AFAIK, and > it's just a matter of sending a brief email to mia@qa.debian.org to > get the ball rolling. No objections from me. :) I just wanted to mention another approach to friendly takeover for unmaintained packages... As I recall it was discussed in debian-devel (and/or debian-qa) a while ago and I've seen it in practice. Of course contacting MIA team won't hurt. Thanks for reminding about it. -- Regards, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. -- Winston Churchill
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