Hi, On 29.05.2012 21:51, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Seems you had several years of solving this issue, yet you waited until
Similarly, the maintainer had 4 years to care about his package. > Did you consider an NMU? That might be an alternative, but looking at the current bug list people will argue about the lacking ground to base a NMU on. It does not really qualify as a typical NMU candidate. People shouldn't be (so) afraid to hijack and NMU packages if they take care of virtually unmaintained packages. There is nothing to apologize or feel sorry about when improving Debian's overall quality. Having that said, 5 days of (private) conversation is perhaps really a bit too short to hijack a package. I'd expect that process to include several weeks of waiting time for an answer at least. Therefore I can see good reasons to hijack such a package. But not in such a hurry. If you really care enough, do a minimally invasive but clearly hostile NMU to start with and give the maintainer a reasonable time frame to respond. Do also CC the MIA team in your conversations, there are other packages Jack maintains which are long outdated and were NMUed already. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D
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