Re: Need help with mgetty and maintainership problems
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:43:21PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> I also offered
> to take over maintainership, or co-maintainership if the current
> maintainer prefer this.
>
What was the answer?
> However, as we get nearer the sarge release time, my understanding of
> not inclusion the patches is shrinking. I want the current faxspooler
> to be in sarge, because it is much more secure from design (not longer
> running under root). I provide (working) packages at
> http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/debian/mgetty-woody/
>
> My question now is: How should I proceed? Should I do a NMU? (If yes:
> Who is willing to sponsor it?) Should I try to hijack?
>
Did you consider uploading of a new source mgetty-ng which
replaces/provides/conflicts with mgetty ? So the choice could be
left to the users.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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