On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:44:26PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > On 30/06/2004 Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Are you comfortable with an Uploaders: field for fd.o xlibs that > > > includes myself? > > > > I'm not sure *my* comfort level is the first-order term in this equation. > > > > Quoting: > > > > [...] > > > > Daniel, disillusioned and disappoitned ex-'X Strike Force' member[1] > > is it required to be 'x strike force' member for uploading xlibs?
One normally doesn't hijack a package (or several of them) away from the current maintainer. Quoting section 5.9.5 of the Debian Developers' Reference: It is not OK to simply take over a package that you feel is neglected — that would be package hijacking. You can, of course, contact the current maintainer and ask them if you may take over the package. If you have reason to believe a maintainer has gone AWOL (absent without leave), see Dealing with inactive and/or unreachable maintainers, Section 7.4. Generally, you may not take over the package without the assent of the current maintainer. Even if they ignore you, that is still not grounds to take over a package. Complaints about maintainers should be brought up on the developers' mailing list. If the discussion doesn't end with a positive conclusion, and the issue is of a technical nature, consider bringing it to the attention of the technical committee (see the technical committee web page for more information).[1] The above does not apply, of course, to any parts of fd.o xlibs that aren't already in Deebian. The above *does* apply even if a given upstream package changes its upstream source. When the Xpm library was incorporated into XFree86 upstream, I expressed my interest in maintaining its packages as part of XFree86 to the then-current maintainer. AFAIR, he had no objection. If Mr. Stone feels there are exigent circumstances at work here, he should say so. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-adopting -- G. Branden Robinson | Beware of and eschew pompous Debian GNU/Linux | prolixity. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Charles A. Beardsley http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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