On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:10:01AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > This is my context, but my question is generic. How are packages > maintained by developers that resign handled, and how should they be > handled. Personally, I believe those packages should be orphaned > right away, to make it easier for others to take over. As it is now, > one need to ask a resigned developer if it is OK to take over the > package, and the response time might be slow. I believe there is a > hole in the official Debian procedures for handling resigned > developers that do not put up all their packages for adoption, and > suggest we come up with a procedure to handle it. I am unsure about this, as the Developers' Reference has this to say about `retiring' from the project: If you choose to leave the Debian project, you should make sure you do the following steps: 1. Orphan all your packages, as described in Section 5.9.4, `Orphaning a package'. 2. Send an gpg-signed email about why you are leaving the project to <debian-private@lists.debian.org>. 3. Notify the Debian key ring maintainers that you are leaving by emailing to <keyring-maint@debian.org>. Does this apply here? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036
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