X-Debbugs-CC: franck.joncourt@gmail.com leandrocunha016@gmail.com Hi, On Sun, 5 Sep 2021 18:02:50 -0300 Leandro Cunha <leandrocunha016@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > I communicate that due to the inactivity since 2018 in the psad package, > I am orphaning this package and in this case the QA group becomes the > maintainer. If you are still interested in working on this package, please > respond to this bug, which I can close. Thanks for the work. > > Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this > package if you will have enough time and attention to work on it. > > If you want to be the new maintainer, please see > https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed > instructions how to adopt a package properly. I believe what you are doing is exactly called "packaging hijacking", which is unfavorable. Since the original maintainer did not volunteerly orphan the package and that the Debian MIA Team did not kick in, we must not assume that the original package maintainer has given up the maintenance responsibility. Debian has a readily-available process to handle current situation (ITS) and I believe you also know it. We should follow this procedure to take over package maintenance in order to ensure smooth takeover where no argument would take place. My suggestion is to convert this orphaning report to ITS report and start ITS process immediately according to https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#package-salvaging . This mail copy is also sent to the original package maintainer (Franck Joncourt). Franck: please let us know whether you are still going to maintain this package in Debian. If there's no response, we will continue with the ITS process and take over the maintenance of package psad in Debian. Thanks, Boyuan Yang
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