Hi.
Have you checked :
http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/w3c-markup-validator.html ?
This is the main reference for Debian packages maintenance tasks, IMHO.
It states :
This package has been orphaned. This means that it does not have
a real maintainer at the moment. Please consider adopting this
package if you are interested in it. Please see bug number
#573497 for more information.
So, I think your first care should be for
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573497
There's a procedure for declaring your intent to adoption of a package
that has been orphaned (ITA). I suggest that you read the paragraph on
the "O" status in the bottom of http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
Hope this helps,
Good luck.
Best regards,
Le mercredi 21 juillet 2010 à 11:43 +0100, Nicholas Bamber a écrit :
I would like to become a maintainer for this package:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/w3c-markup-validator.html .
I have reviewed some of the bugs:
#477792 This just goes against the provided documentation and so
should be closed.
#437795,#461021 I think the upstream package is now on 1.1.
#445265 If validated this should be fixable by just amending the
dependencies.
#263716 It seems if one maintains this package one may also have to
maintain w3c-linkchecker.
I have run up the current version on a fresh debian install and it
works. However it really needs to be uptodate with the latest upstream
version to be fully useful to me.
Nicholas