On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 03:55:48PM +0530, Abhijith PA wrote: > I own this package. Last upload was done by Jeremy Bicha as their > Ubuntu release was due that even without notifying me prior. Now I can > see there is also another QA upload.
An ITA really doesn't lock a package forever. You have been claiming this ITA since 1½ years (January 2022), but you only done one upload to stretch-security (which was under a NMU according to the changelog). Then you closed this ITA/O with a version that doesn't actually change Maintainer but only does another QA upload (the one fro jbicha that you mention): such upload really doesn't conclude the adoption process, but in fact leaves it in an inconsistent state, so I really don't understand why would even do that. Effectively as long as you don't upload this package to unstable with a changed Maintainer field you really don't "own" anything. ITAs are supposed to be used for coordinating and preventing two people to adopt the same package, but I really don't think it's fair to say you "own" the package for years without ever uploading it just because of the metadata of a bug and with that preventing a QA upload. https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#howto-o All that said as a preamble, I reopened the bug because this package came up in a list of packages with inconsistent metadata ("orphaned without associated O bug"), that's how I found it this morning. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. More about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
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