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Re: Q: Concerning package adoption



  Hi Simon,

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:43:40AM +0200, Simon Kainz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to adopt the orphaned package snowdrop. Reading
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557585 it tells me to
> look at http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o . But I am
> no maintainer, so i surely can't just put myself in the Maintainer:
> field as suggested. Or should I anyway? Maybe someone could point me
> into the right direction as how I may adopt this packages. Or does
> someone have to be Maintainer/DD to be able to adopt packages?
> 
> I found some error in the manpage of snwodrop, which I already have a
> patch for. I would like to, well take this as a starting point to get
> more involved in Debian.

  You can be the maintainer, some DD has to upload it, see
  https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq

  regards,
-- 
  Ricardo Mones 
  ~
  Don't take the name of root in vain.          /usr/src/linux/README

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