On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 02:26:10PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 02:04:50PM +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: > > Sections 5.11.3 and 5.11.4 describe how to orphan/adopt a normal package[0], > > but the procedure is different for a pseudo-package because there's no > > actual > > package to edit. Based on [1], I suggest adding a paragraph like this: > This is just a terminology thing, but "adopting" somehow feels like strange > language here, because pseudo-packages are really more like responsibilities > that are assigned to teams for specialized situations. Perhaps "change the > maintainer of" rather than "adopt"?
yes > > To adopt a pseudo-package, e-mail `[email protected]` and ask > [email protected] instead, please. Otherwise this seems reasonable to > me. yes seems reasonable to me too and thanks for your bug report with patch, Andrew. An updated patch would be appreciated... -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ OpenPGP: B8BF54137B09D35CF026FE9D 091AB856069AAA1C ⠈⠳⣄ half the worlds poor life in resource rich countries. HOME: https://youtu.be/Eu6ieWI3yjI
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