Hi, On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 08:43:02PM +0100, Hilko Bengen wrote: > After sponsoring most of Christoph's uploads over the last 5 years or > so, I do not only believe but am certain that he has the technical > skills needed to maintain Debian packages. It has been quite a while > since I last noticed a problem with any of his packages when I checked > before doing the sponsored upload. If this isn't an indication that > sponsoring is no longer needed, I don't know what is. > > I consider Christoph's work in cooperation with upstream > authors/maintainers, where needed, to be excellent. Examples that spring > to mind include > > - getting the ngircd testsuite to work reliably in buildd environments, > - cleaning up pptpd (both source and packaging), > - the recent adventures regarding file(1) I had the pleasure to interact together with Christoph regarding the recent file issues and had the same experience: He very diligently reported the issue to the security team, preparing patches, providing details and interacting with upstream to solve the issue. This is only a small addition to what Hilko already wrote :) Regards, Salvatore
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