and please note: there is currently an RC bug open against the package. you might want to help fixing that bug as a start.
cheers, G Il Venerdì 30 Ottobre 2015 12:14, Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfra...@yahoo.it> ha scritto: BTW if you really think as upstream that the package is in a bad state, and the maintainer are not answering to mails please contact MIA team https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MIA and based on the issues on the current version (e.g. does the current debian version has serious/security bugs?) you can even raise some bugs severity. If the new release brings new features, and it is a leaf package I guess it is worth waiting a month or two for MIA team to get the package officially orphaned (then you can take over the package maintenance) cheers, G. Il Venerdì 30 Ottobre 2015 11:27, Alec Leamas <leamas.a...@gmail.com> ha scritto: On 30/10/15 09:51, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi Alec, > >> >> I'm not seeking any argument as to why the Debian packages are still >> 0.9.0. It's the debian packager's decision. Full stop. > > > the argument might be: we were in the freeze because of jessie release at > that time, > so no new packages have been uploaded yet. FYI, 0.9.0 (current version) was released March, 2011. 0.9.1 happened June, 2014. > and the maintainer retired a few months ago. Ah... Cheers! --alec PS: Will process review remarks later. Thanks for those!
