Bug#681833: developers-reference: please document a package salvaging process

[Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Michael Gilbert, 2012-07-16, 18:35:
>
>> +<para>
>> +If a package has been already been orphaned, you may salvage it without
>> any
>> +kind of approval.
>> +</para>
>> +
>> +<para>
>> +Filing a removal request against ftp.debian.org, then reintroducing the
>> package
>> +with yourself as the maintainer is considered adversarial and is
>> explicitly
>> +disallowed.
>> +</para>
>
>
> Is orphaning the package and then uploading it with maintainer set as
> yourself okay or is it "considered adversarial and is explicitly
> disallowed"?

Interesting condition.  According to Developers Reference 5.9.4,
orphaning is a process that is only supposed to be initiated by the
existing maintainer.

So yes, that would also be disallowed.  Since you are not yet the
maintainer, you cannot orphan the package in order to become the
maintainer.

I would probably go ahead and merge the removal and orphaning
statements together as a change to the above patch.

Best wishes,
Mike