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Re: How to step away from a package maintained inside the science team



Philipp Huebner <debalance@debian.org> writes:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I am no longer interested in maintaining ceres-solver which I
> re-introduced into Debian in March 2013.
>
> Given that I have been effectively the only active maintainer for that
> package, I am wondering what to do, so please advise!
>
>
> The package is in okay'ish shape. Upstream is not really interested in
> fixing failing tests on the low-power not-so-mainstream architectures,
> and there's an issue regarding dependencies on Eigen that is beyond my
> knowledge (#883619, #868355).

I'm not really sure about the science team policy and/or practice, but
in similar sitations I've filed an RFA suggesting the adopter join the
relvant team, but leaving it up to them.

d


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