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Bug#681833: marked as done (developers-reference: please document a package salvaging process)

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regarding developers-reference: please document a package salvaging process
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package: developers-reference
severity: normal
version: 3.4.8
tag: patch

Hi,

I've prepared an initial draft of a developers reference patch that
would document a package salvaging process.  Please see below.

Best wishes,
Mike

--- pkgs.dbk.orig	2012-07-16 18:19:56.065047490 -0400
+++ pkgs.dbk	2012-07-16 18:32:20.626439544 -0400
@@ -2257,6 +2257,86 @@

 </section>

+<section id="package-salvaging">
+<title>Package Salvaging</title>
+
+<para>
+Unfortunately over time, certain maintainers become less active without turning
+over their packages via the orphaning process or fully leaving the project.
+This is a natural process, and there is nothing wrong with it, but in the
+meantime their packages suffer bit-rot and bug reports go unanswered.
+Fortunately the NMU process provides a means to inject much needed health into
+these neglected packages.  This is the liberal NMU.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Also, at times, there can be situations where contributors would like to modify
+a package for a lower severity bug report, but said bug is ignored for a long
+time by an active maintainer.  If the fix is good, it should certainly go into
+the archive.  This is another case where an NMU is appropriate, but it would
+not be considered a liberal NMU.  These cases can be resolved by are a standard
+10-day NMU, and conflicts can be refered to the technical committee as a
+technical dispute.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Ideally, the liberal NMU is done by uploading the package of interest to the
+DELAYED/10 queue or greater.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The liberal NMU is also appropriate in general for fixing bugs, but
for packages
+that have not recieved an upload in greater than six months liberal NMUs are
+highly encouraged and can fix issues that are not tracked in the BTS.  Changing
+the build system in a Liberal NMU is still not acceptable, but all
other changes
+are allowed including packages of new upstream versions.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+A mail for each Liberal NMU should be sent to either the maintainer or the BTS
+(which is automatically forwarded to the maintainer) and should include a
+hyperlink to a VCS containing the changeset of this liberal NMU and all of your
+prior liberal NMUs to this package.  A VCS link is preferred to
+an NMU patch in these cases since long-term if the maintainer does not
+resume activity, you will be making many liberal NMUs and ultimately becoming
+its maintainer.  The message body should maintain a positive
+attitude and mention that the maintainer may review and has the option to
+cancel the NMU while it waits in the upload queue for the next 10 or more days.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Unfortunately the maintainer may reject some of your contributions that you
+disagree with.  In this case, try to find a way to implement the changes in a
+way that the maintain will approve.  Failing that, please refer the matter as a
+technical disagreement to the technical committee.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Preferably, after you have demonstrated that you can handle the package, the
+maintainer will either step down or approve you to be a part of the packaging
+team.  If the maintainer has been active or not approved this after an
+additional six months after your first liberal NMU, you may petition the tech
+committee to rule on the maintainership of the package.  Please include as much
+information as possible (including bug reports, uploaded versions, VCS links,
+etc.) to make the committee's decision easy.  If the maintainer at some point
+becomes active, and does not want your participation to continue, you may
+petition either accept that request and step down or petition the tech
+committee to rule on the matter.
+</para>
+
+<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>
+
+</section>
+
 </section>

 <section id="collaborative-maint">

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Source: developers-reference
Source-Version: 3.4.21

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
developers-reference, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 681833@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org> (supplier of updated developers-reference package)

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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 23:21:04 +0200
Source: developers-reference
Binary: developers-reference developers-reference-de developers-reference-fr developers-reference-ja developers-reference-ru developers-reference-it
Architecture: source
Version: 3.4.21
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Developers Reference Maintainers <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org>
Description:
 developers-reference - guidelines and information for Debian developers
 developers-reference-de - guidelines and information for Debian developers, in German
 developers-reference-fr - guidelines and information for Debian developers, in French
 developers-reference-it - guidelines and information for Debian developers, in Italian
 developers-reference-ja - guidelines and information for Debian developers, in Japanese
 developers-reference-ru - guidelines and information for Debian developers, in Russian
Closes: 681833 879863 907535 907605 908867
Changes:
 developers-reference (3.4.21) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Tobias Frost ]
   * Team upload.
   * Fix Alioth references in README-contrib (Closes: #907605)
   * Add package-salvaging text (Closes: #681833, #907535).
   * Move shell snippet in §6.4 to common.ent.
   * Update German translation. (Closes: #908867)
 .
   [ Nicholas D Steeves ]
   * Change priority extra to optional in §6.7.7 (Closes: #879863).
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