Delinquent maintainers?
How long does a package have to sit with unfixed bugs before the maintainers
are considered to be inactive? I mentioned on this list wanting to use VLC,
which has now sat un-migratable for almost one year.
Since nothing was happening there I figured I'd install checkinstall and
then install VLC from source--but checkinstall has sat with grave bugs
unfixed for over 240 days itself. This is a package mentioned in the
Administrator section of the Debian web site
(http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/147), but apparently nobody
is maintaining it.
I'm simply not qualified to maintain either package. What else can I do?
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