On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > The maintainer seems MIA since June 2012, not responding to bug > > reports nor direct mails. > > The two most recent upstream releases not packaged. > > Why would this be a reason to *remove* a package? Especially after > such a short time. The package hasn't even been orphaened.
Well, "short time" is relative to how slow/fast things move. In this case, upstream is _not_ moving slow, I would say :) > I have seen packages in Debian which haven't received updates from the > maintainer after much longer periods. True, but let's not focus too much on that, please. This is a little bit different. Dirk, Linus and many more working with upstream are pushing things forward at higer pace than average. > This doesn't necessarrialy mean the maintainer is MIA. True. But nothing happened for many moons :) > Debian is run by volunteers and sometimes, people are busy with more > important things in life. Aren't we all? Volunteers and trying to also cope with the "important things in life"? The good thing with such a large community is that there's a lot of backup. > This doesn't mean that anyone has the right to immediately remove their > packages from Debian. True. But that doesn't mean either everyone is happy seeing things stalling? > I suppose Khalid will be happy to continue to work on the package > again once he finds the time. I certainly hope so. But, unfortunatelly, there was no sign of life from Khalid for a, relatively, long time. No RFHs either, AFAICT. > I don't see any need (and I think it's impolite) to pressure him in such > a way. I appologise, in that case. But that was not my intent. My intent is to find a debian maintainer/developer that has the time to work on these 2 packages. Cheers, -- Cristian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.02.1303031809350.11...@znkvzvyvna.pvv.fr
