Re: Package is (will be?) orphaned, and we wish to take over maintainership
Hello, Thomas. Thanks for your interest in adopting yum. Your plan
sounds good. Since the former co-maintainer explicitly suggested handing
it over to some interested party, and the main maintainer recently retired
from Debian, I think you can go forward immediately with this adoption.
Also, please note it would have sufficed to CC debian-qa. The
debian-release list did not need to be in the loop for this.
Cheers,
* Thomas Goirand [Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:27:35 +0800]:
> Hi,
> I hope that sending this as copy to debian-qa@lists.debian.org and
> debian-release@lists.debian.org is the way to go and that this is not
> disturbing some already busy lists. Forgive me if that is too much.
> It seems that the maintainer of the package has not been seen since
> 2005, and that the co-maintainer is not interested in the package
> anymore, as per:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/02/msg00413.html
> In this, he wrote:
> "I was only working on it on behalf of OLPC. Since I'm no longer with
> them, I don't really have any interest in working on it. I would
> suggest giving it to someone who has a use for it."
> Barry deFreese told me on #debian-mentors that he "will orphan it shortly".
> As the package is very important to us (we use it to bootstrap CentOS
> VMs from a Xen dom0 and resell it to our customers), we wish to take
> over maintainership. I am comfortable with Debian packaging, while my
> employee, Manuel Amador, is comfortable with python and RPM things.
> Together as a team, we will (hopefully) be able to maintain yum
> correctly in Debian. We have created a specific email address for
> communicating about the package, this forwards to rudd-o@rudd-o.com
> (Manuel Amador's address) and thomas@goirand.fr (myself):
> yumpackage@gplhost.com
> Please write to it for any concerns about the yum package in Debian.
> I'll feel an ITA as soon as I see that the package is orphaned.
> Last thing: we have prepared a new package with the latest version from
> upstream (as the current one was really not working well, with lot's of
> bad printing, and sometimes hanging for minutes doing nothing) in here:
> ftp://ftp.gplhost.com/debian/dists/lenny/main/source/yum_3.2.21-1~gplhost1.dsc
> Of course, we will change the version number, but as this is in our
> repository for the moment, the version above is ok. Anyway, we would
> need to close the ITA number, so we would need to update the package
> whatever happens.
> Thomas Goirand
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