* Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>, 2012-09-28, 18:48:
Packages being marked as orphaned, or those being up for adoption can be immediately taken over.
If a package is RFA-ed (as opposed to O-ed), the maintainer retains all the usual privileges, including the right to decide who will take over the package (if anyone).
(Or least that how I understand how RFA is supposed to work. Please correct me if I've been wrong all the time.)
Reasons to salvage a package ----------------------------------------
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* There is no visible activity regarding the package [5] for /six months/.
[...]
* The last upload was an NMU and there was no maintainer upload within /one year/.
Isn't the latter point redundant? Or are you saying that one can start the "salvaging" procedure a year after an NMU _despite_ visible activity of the maintainer?
-- Jakub Wilk