Maintainer inactivity on am-utils package: Request to adopt
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Hi,
The am-utils automounter packages have had no uploads from the
maintainer for over a year and a half, and the current maintainer,
Philippe Troin, while still active on mailing lists, is not responding
to requests about the packages. There are several bugs, with patches
supplied, that have been in the BTS for some considerable time, which
have not been dealt with, other than by NMU.
Here follows a summary timeline of recent history of the package:
Timeline:
Jul 27 2003: Last upload of the package by the current maintainer
Aug 16 2003: Bug #205794 requesting po-debconf change. No response
from Philippe in BTS.
Aug 13 2004: NMU (3.0) by Stephen Quinney <stephen@jadevine.org.uk>
fixing #249666
Sep 30 2004: Release Critical bug #274223 filed. No response from
Philippe in BTS
Oct 20 2004: Merge of RC #274223 and #276738 by Frank Lichtenheld
<djpig@debian.org>. No response from Philippe in BTS.
Nov 26 2004: Philippe allowed me (Tim Cutts) to NMU am-utils. This
was the last time I had any contact from Philippe.
Dec 04 2004: NMU (3.1) by Tim Cutts <timc@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Mar 03 2005: Lucas Wall emails maintainer announcing his intention to
NMU. I received a copy of this message because I've subscribed to
am-utils bug reports. I responded to Lucas saying that Philippe isn't
MIA, but is a little slow responding to email, and that I would talk to
him as well, if Lucas didn't get a response.
Mar 10 2005: Last posting I saw from Philippe (on debian-private)
Mar 21 2005: Lucas has still had no reply, so sends his patch for
#205794 to me, as the most recent NMU uploader.
Mar 24 2005: I sent another message to Philippe, saying that I had
tested the patch, and would upload to the 7-day delayed queue during
the Easter weekend, to give him time to remove it if he felt strongly
about it. I also offered to adopt the package in this email.
Mar 26 2005: NMU (3.2) to 7-day delayed queue by Tim Cutts.
At the time of this e-mail, I still have not had any response from
Philippe, and neither has Lucas, as far as I know. Philippe is still
active, within the past couple of weeks, on the Debian mailing lists,
so I can only assume that while he is not MIA, he no longer has any
interest in maintaining am-utils, and I am hereby formally offering to
adopt it.
It's in use on hundreds of machines where I work, so I have a strong
incentive for maintaining it!
I imagine the QA team will want to nudge Philippe first, though...
Regards,
Tim
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Dr Tim Cutts
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