Bug#1117006: RFS: safeeyes/3.2.0-1[ITA] -- Prevent eye strain with Safe Eyes – an essential screen break reminder.

[Joachim Zobel <jz-2017@heute-morgen.de>]

Am Donnerstag, dem 02.10.2025 um 08:57 -0400 schrieb Archisman Panigrahi:

> It cannot be an ITA because the package is not up for adoption.
> You are hijacking the package, unless you have a prior agreement with the
> current maintainer, which you need to provide.

I'm sorry, all I really want is to get the updated package to Debian. I have no intention to take over the current maintainers position (I emailed the maintainer on September 21 but did not receive any reply).

I am not very familiar with all the rules of how Debian packages are managed. Could you please explain what I should do in this case if I just want to get the package updated? 

If not ITA, can it be an NMU? Should I create a different bug report against `sponsorship-requests` for that?

This might be a package suitable for package salvaging. See [1] for the criteria. You will need patience, because you have to give the maintainer time for a response and there will probably other things that need time. The good thing is that the forky release cycle just started.  

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In the meantime you could run your own repository or simply offer deb packages with your Github releases. See [2] for an example. 

If you decide to do package salvaging, this means you will become package maintainer, which is a long time commitment. You don't need upload permission to be a package maintainer and you will have to do without for quite some time.

Sincerely,

Joachim

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/PackageSalvaging

[2] https://github.com/volkszaehler/vzlogger