Re: Unbuildable packages

[Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>]

Hi, Andrew Pollock wrote:

> I'm hesitant to package up a new upstream version of something that I have
> no knowledge of (and probably no interest in, or I'd have adopted it). I
> may end up making matters worse for the QA group overall, which is the
> last thing that I want to do.

In that case, if the package is of some importance (eg., other packages
depend on it) I'd ask the maintainers of those packages and/or on -devel
for somebody to adopt it.

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