On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: > "Generally, you may not take over the package without the assent of the > current maintainer. Even if they ignore you, that is still not grounds > to take over a package. Complaints about maintainers should be brought > up on the developers' mailing list. If the discussion doesn't end with a > positive conclusion, and the issue is of a technical nature, consider > bringing it to the attention of the technical committee (see the > technical committee web page for more information)."
I was the maintainer since I have been doing the work of maintaining the package. We call that do-ocracy. So I was entitled to give the package away. The text you quote is a document that contains "guidelines". And it starts with "generally" so it doesn't cover all cases. I believe the vast majority of Debian developers would agree with Craig and me. This discussion is absurd. But if you have nothing better to do than to convince yourself that you were right, have a go and ask on the mailing lists. Or add yourself back and stop this stupid discussion. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Discover the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
