On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 07:13:51AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > > At Thu, 14 Aug 2025 06:27:27 +0200 <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 08:41:33PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > > > There are a couple of Debian bug reports, one over a year old with no > > > progress. I am wondering: what can I do to help get these bugs fixed? > > > > > > Report numbers: #1068722 and #111100. > > > > Bug interaction happens in Debian via mail: every "bug" is like a little > > mailing list on its own. You can write to it if you want to contribute, > > or, if you want to interact more closely, you can subscribe it. > > I know all of that. You could mention it in your original post to spare yourself such long-winded stories ;-) (OTOH perhaps it's useful to others, so...) > It is just that #1068722 has been "lingering" since Tue, > 9 Apr 2024 18:48:02 UTC with nothing being done about it. 17 months with not > even a comment from a maintainer... *I* tried to build the backage from > source, but that failed too. It appears that there are some real problems > with various android-* packages and I'm wondering is anyone is even aware of > the problems... I gather from the above that you already posted your concerns in the above bug. If not, it's perhaps a good idea to do so first and wait a bit for the maintainer's reaction. If the maintainer doesn't react (life happens, overload, whatever), you might prepare a NMU (non-maintainer upload) patch [1], post it to the bug and seek sponsors for it (i.e. other Debian maintainers willing to push the NMU. You find potential sponsors e.g. in the debian-mentors or debian-devel mailing lists (but even here you might). Cheers [1] https://wiki.debian.org/NonMaintainerUpload -- tomas
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