Re: Is Philippe Troin MIA?
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:26:15PM +1100, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:09:12AM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> >
> >If Philippe Troin would like to give away bzip2, I will take it.
>
> Philippe, I'm very interested on upgrading bzip2 to the current
> policy version and fixing a number of its 21 bugs. This package has
> never been uploaded to unstable.
>
> I intent to take over bzip2 after a week from now (two weeks from my
> previous message), unless you post an objection.
He has been active less than two months ago at least on debian-amd64. I
consider it a bit premature to hijack one of his packages. NMU'ing is
something different though, but with zero import and higher bugs, why
risk breaking the package? It's frozen anyway.
The proper procedure is to contact debian-qa (or mia@qa.debian.org, this
alias is not publicly archived and hence serves better for
privacy-sensitive queries and in case of more light suspections[1]).
After some investigation, packages will be orphaned when needed. For
urgent matters, you can always NMU of course.
So: I object to hijacking bzip2 at this stage, do wait until/if this
package is orphaned.
--Jeroen
[1] Just sending a mail to a public mailinglist that you consider person
X MIA can be rude, especially if you're mistaken
--
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Jeroen@wolffelaar.nl (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357)
http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
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