> On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:07, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I just hand over the readseq package to Michael Schmitz. He is obviousely > > much more competent to maintain the package than me. We agreed not to > > go the bureocratic orphan and adopt. The next upload will just come from > > Michael. > > Why so formal?
Just to cover all bases. I was too lazy to bother reading up documentation or policy :-) > When I'm doing such package chang-over's it's generally just arranged through > private mail and the rest of the world learns about it through the changelog. > > IMHO an arranged take-over like that requires no special announcements. We > assume that the maintainer is good enough to find an equally skilled person > to take over the package and therefore there is no reason for anyone to > complain. This being Debian, people always complain. There might well be a more skilled person to take over that package, after all. Michael