Re: Getting a patch applied with an unresponsive maintainer
On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 10:22:29AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 09:19:36AM +0100, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> > So I guess the question now is: what, if anything, can I do to get that
> > code into a build and out the door and onto the Debian package
> > repositories?
>
> Can you prepare an NMU patch (which incorporates the fix patch, as well
> as a changelog entry indicating it's a non-maintainer upload)? Then post
> that to the bug and explain you are seeking a sponsor to upload it.
>
> <https://wiki.debian.org/NonMaintainerUpload>
>
> You could ask for a sponsor on the debian-mentors or debian-devel
> mailing lists.
Exactly what I needed, thank you!
I hadn't known about the -mentors list, and I wasn't sure going straight
to -devel was appropriate, but I think that gives me my next steps here
:)
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