Il giorno mer, 19/08/2009 alle 19.19 +0200, Patrick Matthäi ha scritto: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Pietro Battiston schrieb: > > Rogério's mail ([0]) gave me desire to insist. > > > > Now I'm being much more clearer and short: a (not so unpopular) package > > (Denemo) is unmaintained. It has bugs and a very old version packaged, > > which upstream strongly suggests to avoid. I repackaged it from scratch: > > last upstream version (and changes aren't really minor, also w.r.t. > > packaging), and dropped CDBS. > > > > To the first mail I send, the maintainer answers, after 15 days, "I have > > no time to comment". > > To the second mail, where I link the package I made, no answer after 18 > > days. > > > > What should I do? > > > > "Just wait" would also be an admissible response... but _how much time_? > > And then? > > Please bug this package with your patch attached (or .dsc). > If he does not act within 10 days on it you could create an NMU, I am > willed to sponsor it, if there are no bigger misstakes in your packaging.
Done: see [0], get the .dsc at [1]. About why 0.8.8 was more problematic than 0.8.6, details are in debian/patches/08_git_autogen_config.dpatch . [0]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513285 [1]: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/denemo/denemo_0.8.8-1.1.dsc > > After the NMU you may also hijack the package if the maintainer is still > not responsible for his package. > Not that I tremendously desire it; for a pure question of free time (I'm not even a regular C programmer, so debugging problems really takes me time), I'd prefer to continue NMUing (and in particular I promise I will take care of the next release, which will hopefully allow to remove the bigger patch and tweaks to debian/rules) until there is some hope that Gunter will step back in. But anyway, if there's need I will do it. I wait for your feedback Pietro
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