On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 02:05:12PM +0200, Christian Göttsche wrote: > I uploaded a new package version in which the not upstreamed patches > are dropped, the maintainer is set to myself and the vcs fields are > updated accordingly. > With #874387 Felix is searching for a new maintainer for this package; > what are the requirements for me to become such?
Basically just set yourself as the maintainer (the technical part) and find a sponsor to review and upload the package (the more social part). > Also, I like to ask a technical question: > What is the common dealing with state file upon package purge? > Vnstat saves the network statistics under /var/lib/vnstat and as this > folder is listed in debian/vnstat.install, dpkg warns upon purge > operation that this directory cannot be deleted, because it is not > empty. > Should the directory be emptied in the postrm script or is this > warning acceptable? Should be deleted on purge. I think mariadb packaging nowadays has an additional debconf fronted question if you really want to purge the database. I personally do not think that the value of vnstat history is so huge to implement an additional dialog but YMMV. Sven
