Bug#827700: RFS: cplay/1.50-1 [NMU]

[Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>]

Hi,

>The changes I have quoted above are not usually appropriate for NMUs.
>In particular, changing from a version 1.0 to a 3.0 source package could
>annoy the current package maintainers a great deal.
>
>In this case, it looks like those package maintainers are inactive (no
>uploads since 2005).  You should contact the MIA team to have the
>package orphaned.  Then you can either adopt the package, or make your
>changes as a QA upload.
>


well, the package hasn't been touched in over a decade, so I presume
it might be fine to upload the fixes in deferred/15, even as NMU.
I guess they had *all* the time to refactor the package, and update it.

I'm ccing them both, and a member of MIA team, even if I'm unsure about the
MIA process for non DD people,

So, I think the particular bug can be fixed only with a package refactor, and
I don't want to throw away half of your work just because of policy, in case
of a package *clearly* unmaintained since 11 years.

just my .02$

Gianfranco