Re: Forcibly orphaning mhash?
Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> writes:
> As discussed in this bug, mhash's maintainer appears to be MIA or
> out to lunch.
>
> Is it OK if we forcibly orphan the package now?
There is no procedure for forcible orphaning the package.
If you have a fix for the bug (the bug log seems to suggest that
nobody has a patch at the moment), then please add it to the log;
since the bug is severity grave, you can certainly then do a proper
NMU.
We do not forcibly orphan anything; that's a silly procedure, because
all it can do is change a package with a less-than-ideal maintainer
into a package with none at all. There is a procedure for hijacking,
but this is hardly a case. It's not like a clearly winning patch is
being ignored.
Thomas
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