Bug#816363: RFS: fgetty/0.7-0.1 [NMU] -- very small, efficient, console-only getty
[2016-03-01 13:28] Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>
> please DON'T CC debian-mentors (or anybody, for what metters) while
> filing bugs to submit@bugs.debian.org. The CCed people will receive an
> email from you without the bug number, and will be unable to follow-up
> correctly. In this particular case you also risked a double email,
> since debian-mentors receive bugs against sponsorship-request.
> And you mistyped the pseudo-package name, missing the trailing s.
Sorry about it.
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 02:51:51AM -0500, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> > Changes since last upload:
> >=20
> > * Non-maintainer upload.
> > * New upstream release
> > * Add watch file with GPG key verification
> > * Add source/format to follow v3.0 source package format
> > * Use debhelper instead of custom debian/rules
> > * Drop checkpassword-pam. Upstream does not support it, and once writte=
> n,
> > but is not maintained anymore. Averaged desktop setup should not
> > need anyway.
> > * Remove outdated README.Debian
> > * Reformat debian/copyright to follow DEP-5
> > * Link checkpassword with gnu libc (Closes: #563335) with hardening
> > * Add lintian overrides about static build and lack of dependencies
> > * Write manpage for login1 and login2
> > * New standards version -- 3.9.7 (No changes needed)
>
> This is way way way too much for a NMU.
> A NMU should fix bugs and be minimal; see
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#nmu
So it would be okay to have NMU with several lintian errors and heap of
warnings?
> Though that package is actually unmaintained, and don't see an upload
> since 9+ years.
> Considering that pape is MIA but tends to (slowly) reply to mails [0],
> please try to contact him (better as a follow-up of this RFS) and see
> what he has to say.
Before starting to work I tried to contact him. No reply since 8th
Feb. Would it be polite to take maintainership?
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