Re: Question about procedure for canceling an adoption...

[David Moreno Garza <damog@debian.org>]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 13:06 -0500, Reed Snellenberger wrote:
> I originally intended to adopt two orphaned packages (goats (1) and
> ksetisaver (2)), and followed the ITA procedures to the letter.  I've since
> developed a time crunch (a new job) and found that I'm not going to be able
> to adopt either package.  It doesn't look like this case is covered in the
> "Work-Needing and Prospsective Packages" online HOW-TO document(3).
> 
> I've already retitled the wnpp bugs back to "O: xxxxx", but it wasn't clear
> to me how to re-set the bug's ownership to eliminate my email -- I thought
> about using the "noowner" control message, but thought there should be a
> "default" owner for the bug.

Not really. Actually when in a "normal" bug is activated an owner, that
means that the bug has an owner other than the usual maintainer of the
package, which I find very useful when trying to query all the wnpp bugs
on my side, for example.

Setting ownership means taking responsibility of squashing it, only.

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