-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek wrote: > 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? I'm getting very tired of those 7-year-old bugs. It's not healthy.
> 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. Absolutely the opposite; this might have been described as a veiled attempt to hijack the package, disguised as an orphaning. ;-) There would be clamor to adopt it, and I'd be there. I think a lot of people would like to get this into better shape. If Craig's still active and hoping to upload in June, that's great and no worries. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGIVXQRGZ0aC4lkIIRAmRWAJkBH+hV2Y/hf8roJTZgC7kheSAsTwCeKKWa Sr3VYg3zlJ/y5YW1Us6z8HU= =0agn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
