Bug#294991: O: sitecopy -- A program for managing a WWW site via FTP, DAV or HTTP
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:59:58AM +0100, Janusz S. Bien wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:27:51 +0100
> Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > Did you try to contact the maintainer before taking this step?
>
> No. I guess I should, but after some hesitation I decided that the
> facts are obvious and taking such a shortcut will save some time in
> bringing the upgrade to Debian users.
This can be achieved otherwise, well, such a shortcut (asking for
someone to hijack the package without even asking the maintainer) is
considered a tad rude if the maintainer isn't even cc'd on the actual
request. If a maintainer is unresponsive, you can always as user mail to
-devel asking about it, or the better mailinglist in this case would
have been -qa.
> My apology if I broke some rules - a BTS manual for *users* seems to
> be missing.
wnpp (this isn't about the BTS really, you apparantly are perfectly able
to send out a good O: bugreport on wnpp) is not at all intended for
users, developer (but readable for everyone) documentation is
available[0] (but not dealing with what to do with neglecting packages).
Neglected/outdated packages only as last step will get orphaned, see [1]
for a bit of information (though not complete nor 100% useful for
non-developers).
I do acknowledge however, that when I tried a user-oriented search for
what to do, I failed to find any good information, except mailinglists
to ask for. This probably should be fixed...
--Jeroen
[0] http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-beyond-pkging.en.html#s-mia-qa
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Jeroen@wolffelaar.nl (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357)
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