On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:56:03 +0000 (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org> wrote: > > I did *two* NMU of stockfish for this maintainer, both were new upstream release, and upstream was making pressure > about updating it. > > So, even if the maintainer is not officially MIA, I guess you can already open an RFS bug, that I can sponsor if > the following conditions are met: > 1) you bump severity of 802196 to important and explain why the new version is important to go in unstable > > 2) you fix also 772432 (just apply the patch or check if the new upstream release fixes that bug) > 3) you try to see how and which bugs are fixed in the new release > 4) you open an RFS bug > > > if the review is good, I'll upload in deferred/15 or somewhere in that deferred queue. > Thank you Gianfranco, I'll address all of your points and give an answer shortly. > (and I think MIA team might orphan the package in the following days, so I'll probably ask you > to convert in a Team upload, or Qa upload, or to add yourself as maintainer of the package) > > > I should admit some changes are useless/out of an NMU scope, so maybe if you want to wait for him > to step in, or MIA team to orphan the package, I can sponsor even more easily the package. > I use this package a lot so would be happy maintain it (in a team or individually), even I have no experience in Tcl and Tk :-0 Regards,
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