Re: maintainer not responding
* 2010-08-05 12:10 (-0700), Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
> But what can be done when a maintainer is not responding to the bug
> reports they are responsible for?
> Some have patches, some need to be forwarded upstream, and lots just
> need a response like "I don't have time to fix these bugs, could
> someone please help.".
Well, that particular volunteer is busy in other tasks or not motivated
enough to work on his packages. Indeed, help is needed there. Can you
fix some of the bugs? Do you know someone who can? Ask other Debian
developers if they can apply patches and upload new version. Perhaps
package should be orphaned but I'm not familiar with Debian's package
orphaning practices.
It's good that you noticed this and care about the package. You might be
the right person to push things forward, at least a bit.
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