Re: Bug#827700: RFS: cplay/1.50-1 [NMU]
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 06:54:38AM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> >The changes I have quoted above are not usually appropriate for NMUs.
> >
> >In this case, it looks like those package maintainers are inactive (no
> >uploads since 2005). You should contact the MIA team to have the
> >package orphaned.
>
> well, the package hasn't been touched in over a decade, so I presume
> it might be fine to upload the fixes in deferred/15, even as NMU.
> I guess they had *all* the time to refactor the package, and update it.
>
> I'm ccing them both, and a member of MIA team, even if I'm unsure about the
> MIA process for non DD people,
The MIA database does contain information about everyone, any DD can query it:
ssh qa.debian.org /srv/qa.debian.org/mia/mia-query jesus.climent@hispalinux.es
ssh qa.debian.org /srv/qa.debian.org/mia/mia-query peter@p12n.org
As activity-pgp is Dec 2006 and Apr 2013 respectively, both of them are
pretty thoroughly inactive. I've thus pushed the big "O" button and filed
#827890.
> So, I think the particular bug can be fixed only with a package refactor, and
> I don't want to throw away half of your work just because of policy, in case
> of a package *clearly* unmaintained since 11 years.
With the package freshly orphaned, it's a matter of a QA upload or adoption.
We're in salvage not hijack land...
Meow!
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