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Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption



Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> writes:
>> 3) There are about 1000 Debian developers and thousands of Debian
>>    users out there.
>> 4) Not one of them has offered to maintain dvidvi, not you, not the
>>    maintainers of the packages that depend on it
> I would be willing to maintain dvidvi, and a few similar random packages
> like that that I don't use personally but that have a set of users that
> want them and supply patches for them, once I get through the NM process.
> While I'm still in NM, though, it doesn't feel right to take on more load
> like that that my sponsor has to deal with.

I would be willing to sponsor you for this (and I'm sure other
QA-related persons too). If you want to adopt some orphaned packages and
actually maintain them, I'm happy to help you with that.

Marc
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