Re: Roland Rosenfeld MIA?

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:

> Metaquestion: I wonder whether it might make sense to start an
> inter-distribution effort to manitain patches against software
> orphaned upstream.  Examples to my knowledge are Midnight Commander
> (even if recently something happened), feh (where I tried to take
> over Debain maintenance but catching up with dead upstream code
> bugs takes much longer than I wanted) and probably many others.

I would rather think of forming an inter-distribution team (per package
or globaly if that would make sense) to take over upstream. For
bash-completion that worked out very well.

Cheers

Luk