More than a year ago, Matthew Garrett resigned from Debian. His decision is explained in <URL:http://mjg59.livejournal.com/66647.html>. He still is listed as the maintainer of several packages on <URL:http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and seem to kind of maintain at least libpam-foreground (got one upload since his resignation, while hotkey-setup and nstx and the others have received no uploads from him since he resigned. This make me suspect he is no longer maintaining the packages. I've asked him a few days ago if it is OK for me to take over maintenence of hotkey-setup with no reply that I am aware of, and had a similar situation this summer with libpam-foreground which eventually lead up to the new upload of libpam-foreground.
This is my context, but my question is generic. How are packages maintained by developers that resign handled, and how should they be handled. Personally, I believe those packages should be orphaned right away, to make it easier for others to take over. As it is now, one need to ask a resigned developer if it is OK to take over the package, and the response time might be slow. I believe there is a hole in the official Debian procedures for handling resigned developers that do not put up all their packages for adoption, and suggest we come up with a procedure to handle it. CC to Matthew, to make him aware that I raise my concert on debian-qa. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
