[2016-03-01 13:28] Mattia Rizzolo <mat...@debian.org> > please DON'T CC debian-mentors (or anybody, for what metters) while > filing bugs to sub...@bugs.debian.org. The CCed people will receive an > email from you without the bug number, and will be unable to follow-up > correctly. In this particular case you also risked a double email, > since debian-mentors receive bugs against sponsorship-request. > And you mistyped the pseudo-package name, missing the trailing s.
Sorry about it. > On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 02:51:51AM -0500, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > Changes since last upload: > >=20 > > * Non-maintainer upload. > > * New upstream release > > * Add watch file with GPG key verification > > * Add source/format to follow v3.0 source package format > > * Use debhelper instead of custom debian/rules > > * Drop checkpassword-pam. Upstream does not support it, and once writte= > n, > > but is not maintained anymore. Averaged desktop setup should not > > need anyway. > > * Remove outdated README.Debian > > * Reformat debian/copyright to follow DEP-5 > > * Link checkpassword with gnu libc (Closes: #563335) with hardening > > * Add lintian overrides about static build and lack of dependencies > > * Write manpage for login1 and login2 > > * New standards version -- 3.9.7 (No changes needed) > > This is way way way too much for a NMU. > A NMU should fix bugs and be minimal; see > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#nmu So it would be okay to have NMU with several lintian errors and heap of warnings? > Though that package is actually unmaintained, and don't see an upload > since 9+ years. > Considering that pape is MIA but tends to (slowly) reply to mails [0], > please try to contact him (better as a follow-up of this RFS) and see > what he has to say. Before starting to work I tried to contact him. No reply since 8th Feb. Would it be polite to take maintainership? -- Accept: text/plain, text/x-diff Accept-Language: eo,en,ru X-Keep-In-CC: yes X-Web-Site: sinsekvu.github.io
