On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 07:49:22PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Hi all! > > This email is motivated by an effective current issue, as detailed below, but > I'm seeing myself in similar situations quite often. > > There is a package, which isn't officially orphaned, but the maintainer is > neither responding to bug reports nor to mails to her @d.o address. Even > though > there is a patch provided with the bug report or I do have one myself, I'm > seeing no way of how to fix the bug and get the package back on track. > > For the curious, my motivation currently stems from #328244. We are using > brickos and gcc-h8300-hms at our site for teaching purposes, so we had to > patch > the gcc-h8300-hms package and provide it in our local repository, but this > isn't > the way Debian works, is it!?
If you want to fix the package only once, then a "non-maintainer upload" (NMU) may be the way to go. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-nmu If you are interested in keeping the package up-to-date regularly, then you may want to offer co-maintainership to the current maintainer. -- Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 30 May 2006 20:17:37 +0200 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
