Hi again, [...] > Because he has had three NMU's, his last upload was on 2004 and I have > got no reply from him since I pinged him and Anibal about a month ago. > I just don't want to step on his toes. It would be a takeover, and he > just asked to be in the Uploaders field for arpwatch-ng. > From http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2007/09/msg00037.html I'd deduce that Peter asked to be in Uploaders for *arpwatch*, not necessarily -ng. But then you might also have further information, going beyond that list post. Besides that, `mia-query fuji` doesn't look too promising. [...] (detailed info about patches) > > Not only 64bits users will benefit from these changes. And yes, I do have > hundreds of installs on 64bits that do segfault with vanilla arpwatch, so I can > confirm it does. > > In short, I don't care that much about how to fix this, but I want it fixed and > without getting in arpwatch's maintainer's way. > I do agree that getting this fixed is very important. But naive as I am, I'd also like to see the following QA issues to be considered in the process: - With arpwatch-ng with get a fresh package in the archive, but arpwatch itself will continue a shadowy existence. With fuji being apparently MIA, neither users nor the maintainer will take care of it. Bit rot. - Please try to find a wording for the description that helps users to choose between arpwatch and arpwatch-ng. Something along the lines of "This version is a superior re-implementation of arpwatch." Basically also arpwatch should see an NMU that changes the description to "This version of arpwatch is deprecated. Please install arpwatch-ng instead." - It would be nice if existing installations of arpwatch could benefit from arpwatch-ng entering the archive. This isn't necessarily the case with a new source package being uploaded in parallel to the existing one. Please understand that I do highly appreciate your efforts, I'm only in pursuit of the (in my own naive understanding) best possible solution for our users. Thanks for all the work, Michael
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