On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:20:49PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > 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]
Artful dodge.
> > 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.
xfree86, it should be noted, is one package.
> The above does not apply, of course, to any parts of fd.o xlibs that aren't
> already in Deebian.
Which is limited to libx{proto-,}{fixes,damage,composite}.
> 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.
BTW, what you decided to do at a given time, isn't necessarily
Debian-blessed practice. Does Debian also bless uploading new major
versions and adding yourself to Uploaders, when the previous one has
been bitrotting in experimental for far too long?
> If Mr. Stone feels there are exigent circumstances at work here, he should
> say so.
Rather than going out and busting out phrases like 'exigent
circumstances' and saying as much as possible between the lines[0], would
you like to share exactly what you think about a maintainership group
for xlibs that includes myself?
[0]: Which tends to be a great ploy to later jump out from behind some
bushes and say 'WRONG! SUCK! I didn't say that!'.
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Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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