Source: fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont Version: 1.6.50-3 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: Debian OpenStack <[email protected]>, Thomas Goirand <[email protected]>, Michal Arbet <[email protected]>, Ivan Udovichenko <[email protected]>
Following the procedure in the Debian Developers Reference, section 5.12, I intend to salvage this package, as mentioned in https://bugs.debian.org/973617 The reasons are as follows: * Bug #973617, requesting an updated version, has had no response from a maintainer/uploader of the package in over two years. * The current upstream version of the package (1.6.50) was uploaded to Debian experimental in 2020, but was already about 4 years out of date at that point; that version was released on May 16, 2016. Upstream tends to release a new version every 4-8 weeks, containing about 100 new icons each time. * There have been no package uploads since May 2020. * As noted in that bug report, there are also DFSG issues with the current package, and there has been no reponse to this either. * There have been no objections raised to my proposal to upload a new version of the package with major changes (see the details in that bug report). I intend to take over the package as sole maintainer, but would be happy to do this as part of a team (for example, the pkg-fonts team, though this is quite a special font that does not fit neatly into that team's remit). I have not quite followed the salvaging process exactly, as I have already uploaded a version of the package to the delayed queue (as noted in the other bug report), but I have not changed the name of the maintainer yet. Best wishes, Julian
