Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)
"Michael D. Crawford" <crawford@goingware.com> writes:
> Is there any formal requirement that a maintainer be responsive, or even
> do his job at all?
No. Debian's Constitution actually states that you can't force a
developer to do any work he or she doesn't want to do.
> Is there a procedure for taking a package away from a maintainer, and
> having someone else take care of maintaining it?
Yep, it's possible to hijack a package. I don't think there's any
documented procedure--usually the developer declares his intention to
hijack publicly and then may do so if no one objects.
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