On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 10:27:03PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > What is your offer? To take over? No, you don't want to do an ITS. > > You want to do "help" the maintainer see the light in changing their way > of working themselves, by doing a one-off non-mild "NMU" which is not an > NMU because it is not mild but invasive.
I think your reaction to this is a bit harsh. I see this ITN proposal as a way how to handle pacakges that are effectively unmaintained, but where one is not necessarily interested in becoming the maintainer. Importing the package into git will make the life of almost everyone¹ who comes across this package in the future easier. Yes, it's not exactly a NMU in the strict sense, but who cares? The package is *abandoned*. Maybe just not calling it an NMU would be a compromise? ¹ yes I know there are people who don't (yet?) use git for maintaining packages, and that's OK. I even have friends who do it. If their packages are maintained, then nobody will touch it.
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