Hi Vincent,
On Sun, 17 May 2015 21:36:22 Vincent Cheng wrote:
> I'd argue that the right approach is still to contact the MIA team and
> ask them to investigate and reach out to the supposedly missing
> maintainer. The thing is, either way (MIA team involved, or not) you'd
> usually want to wait an indeterminate amount of time for the old
> maintainer to reply before giving up anyways, so you may as well just
> follow the devref guidelines. The MIA team is fairly active AFAIK, and
> it's just a matter of sending a brief email to mia@qa.debian.org to
> get the ball rolling.
No objections from me. :)
I just wanted to mention another approach to friendly takeover for
unmaintained packages... As I recall it was discussed in debian-devel (and/or
debian-qa) a while ago and I've seen it in practice. Of course contacting MIA
team won't hurt. Thanks for reminding about it.
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Regards,
Dmitry Smirnov.
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill
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