Hello, > Allison Randal wrote: > > The Parrot release managers will adopt the Parrot Debian > package. None > > of our current release managers are Debian Developers, so > we will need > > to find a sponsor. Let us know if you have any recommendations. > > I CC'ed [EMAIL PROTECTED], I guess that's the > right place to ask.
Definitely. ;-) Parrot is a bit of different beastie than the perl modules we normally handle. But I am fairly certain someone here would be willing to help. I am not very familiar with parrot aside from having read some articles on PIR and seen a couple talks, but it is still a bit over my head. > > Also, is there any way we can get an upstream filing of the > > Parrot-related requests to our ticket queue? We're not > aware of the 2 > > RC bugs referenced by your issue #444708. Usually the debian maintainer is responsible for forwarding bugs, since parrot is maintainer-less it appears that this didn't happen. I will look into this and see if I can forward them. > You can subscribe to all parrot related QA issues here: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/parrot.html (left column, > under "PTS subscription"). If you select "Advanced Mode", you > can chose only to get bug reports. > > Moritz > > > Allison > > > > Moritz Lenz wrote: > >> Good localtime(), > >> > >> The Debian packages for pugs and parrot have been > orphaned, i.e. they > >> have no maintainer anymore, and will disappear from Debian > if nobody > >> takes over: > >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444708 > >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444711 > >> > >> If anybody wants to take care of these, now is the right time. You > >> don't need to be a Debian Developer, it's enough to find one who > >> sponsors your uploads. The debian perl group ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is usually quite helpful if you are going to package perl-related software. Jeremiah
