Re: Out of Date Package and Maintainer Absence

2012-10-04 Thread Vincent W. Chen
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:27:22PM -0700, Vincent W. Chen wrote: >> I am willing to co-maintain the package with Manoj, or even maintain >> it by myself if he's no longer interested in dealing with it. But >> since there has been no reply from

Re: Out of Date Package and Maintainer Absence

2012-10-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 09:54:05AM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > It is very unlikely they would unblock a package with major changes such > as a new upstream version. Not to say Vincent should not work on it, but > it won't be in time for Wheezy. Yes, agreed. There is the small-print reason that the e

Re: Out of Date Package and Maintainer Absence

2012-10-04 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 04.10.2012 08:53, Jon Dowland wrote: > As for getting it into wheezy: I don't think odds are particularly high, but > the release team will need to see a newer version of the package in order to > decide whether to grant a freeze exception or not. It is very unlikely they would unblock a p

Re: Out of Date Package and Maintainer Absence

2012-10-03 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:27:22PM -0700, Vincent W. Chen wrote: > I am willing to co-maintain the package with Manoj, or even maintain > it by myself if he's no longer interested in dealing with it. But > since there has been no reply from him I now turn to the list: any > suggestion on what I sho

Out of Date Package and Maintainer Absence

2012-10-03 Thread Vincent W. Chen
Hi, My questions involve bug #684395 and the FVWM package. Though the bug is only severity: wishlist, I do hope to see newer version make it to Wheezy, seeing as how the last NMU was on 2012 May 5 and the last update by maintainer Manoj was on 2010 Jun 8. As indicated in the bug report, the curren