On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:45:58PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > The maintainer appears to have lost interest in the package (last upload > 1999). > It's also his only package; he is probably MIA. (I seem to remember him > being > very angry about Debian's decision to apply the Social Contract and DFSG to > all > of Debian, and particularly at me for advocating it, so he may have left > Debian deliberately.)
No, he has not. > Given the various NMUs I suspect that this one would be picked up quite > quickly, > but I'm sure nobody wants to step on the maintainer's toes.... > Given the presence of bugs as old as seven years, it clearly needs a new > maintainer. Just like all the other 10-year-old packages that have 7-year-old bugs? If the package doesn't have any RC problems, why should it be orphaned just because there are some older bugs? If anything, this looks to me like a veiled attempt to remove the package from the archive, disguised as an orphaning, since I don't imagine there are a great number of people clamouring to adopt it afterwards. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
