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Re: Looking for a new maintainer for 'colordiff'



On Tue, 2022-05-17 at 20:40 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:

> Should I create RFS? I'm unclear whether this is more suited to a
> one-off upload or for ongoing maintainership. Advice welcome!

It depends on the sponsor, some prefer you to file a public RFS for
each upload, others prefer you to contact them in private. I suggest
you file an RFS and see what your new sponsor says.

> I've been developing 'colordiff' for more than 20 years, but in the
> Debian ecosystem I've never uploaded the packages myself.  Rather I've
> been building the packages and various individuals have sponsored the
> uploads. However my most recent sponsor Colin Tuckley (since 2007) is no
> longer able to do so.

This sounds like a situation where you could upgrade your privileges
in Debian to Debian Maintainer with upload permission for colordiff,
please pursue that once you have a new sponsor.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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