Eder L. Marques wrote: > Luk Claes escreveu: > The txt2tags upstream contact me, saying that he tried to contact the > package maintainer, but didn't have success. > > After, I followed the procedure described on Debian Developers > Reference[1] before mail the mia/qa Team. > > I tried to contact the maintainer, sending a message 08.2008 and another > 09.2008, without success.
There is no single trace of that in the BTS?! > After that, I collect these information and sent to mia team. > >>> I am trying during 7 months to update a package and fix some bugs, >>> but without any answer... >> I think it's strange that you have not send anything to any of the >> open bugs, maybe you can offer co-maintenance? > > As you can see, there's bugs filled more than 4 years ago, and bugs with > patches. These bugs were fixed in newer versions of txt2tags, and yes, I > talked with the upstream and work with him to fix these problems. Please do send an offer for co-maintenance to one of the 'new upstream' bugs. > I made a package that fix 6 of the 7 opened bugs[2]. > > But if even the upstream can't keep in touch with the package > maintainer, how can you say that the maintainer is active? Did you > contact him and get an answer? Because we couldn't. No, he's active on the lists, so he seems to be active, though please send an offer for co-maintenance to one of the bugs in the BTS. >> I hope you can work something out with the maintainer. > > The upstream and me are trying during the last 7 months, but we didn't > receive any answer. This is a very demotivating situation, for me and > for the upstream, and even for Debian users, that are complaining to the > upstream about the very outdated package. > > 1- http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa > 2- http://edermarques.net/pacotes/txt2tags/ > > So, could you please check with the maintainer if he really want to > maintain the package, or made this orphan to be adopted by me? If the maintainer really does not respond when you send such an offer to the BTS, I would consider looking into bapase as the maintainer seems to be active. That would possibly give you a way to take over one of his packages. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
