Nobody wants to comment? Nobody has an idea about how to handle this? Especially the copyright problems filed in 2002 that haven't had any maintainer reaction is IMHO a bit problematic, a maintainer should really do something about at least the legal stuff of his package.
I'd prefer some respected long-time DD gives his opinion/handles this... --Jeroen ----- Forwarded message from Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 15:52:41 +0200 To: debian-qa@lists.debian.org Subject: Advice on a certain maintainer From: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-From: debian-qa@lists.debian.org Hi, When I wanted to use some md5 library for perl, I out of habit did a maintainer-check on the package... and was a bit disappointed. I'll let these URL's speak for themselves: http://jeroen.a-eskwadraat.nl/misc/qa/developer.php?login=mdorman http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=157543 (and quite some others like these) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=110063 (and quite some others like these) http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/debian-devel-199902/msg00559.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/debian-devel-199902/msg00560.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/debian-devel-199902/msg00561.html (not much seems to have changed since) To his defense, he's really a long-time contributor, and he did an upload in March. It also seems he has done (according to his own statements, I did not verify that, but have no reason to doubt it) very much and very hard work in the past, amongst other w.r.t. dpkg and the like. I really don't know what to do about this, because of the above-quoted thread, I'd like your opinion first before burning my fingers on the issue. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
