Re: Bug#243941: How to help with neglected packages

2006-01-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 20 January 2006 11:44, Amaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Coker wrote: > > I don't have the time that this package needs (as is probably > > obvious). I welcome a package takeover by someone such as Amaya. > > Hi there, Russell. While I am not interested in maintanining it, I wil

Re: Bug#243941: How to help with neglected packages

2006-01-19 Thread Amaya
Russell Coker wrote: > I don't have the time that this package needs (as is probably > obvious). I welcome a package takeover by someone such as Amaya. Hi there, Russell. While I am not interested in maintanining it, I will be happy to mentor Marcus, and be his sponsor too. If this is fine with y

Re: Bug#243941: How to help with neglected packages

2006-01-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 20 January 2006 01:17, Amaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus Better wrote: > > I am not a DD. Should I ask someone to do an NMU on these packages? > > I have not yet carefully looked at your patches, but I would be happy to > do so, and upload and so on... But finding a long term Main

Re: How to help with neglected packages

2006-01-19 Thread Amaya
Marcus Better wrote: > I am not a DD. Should I ask someone to do an NMU on these packages? I have not yet carefully looked at your patches, but I would be happy to do so, and upload and so on... But finding a long term Maintainer would be much better. Would you be willing invest the time and effor

Re: How to help with neglected packages

2006-01-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:17:48PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I use a few packages, such as kernel-patch-exec-shield, which are > neglected by the maintainer. What can I do to help if the maintainer is > not responding to bug reports or e-mail

Re: How to help with neglected packages

2006-01-18 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Pryzby wrote: > You can mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking if the maintainer is MIA. Ah, I just noticed section "7.4 Dealing with inactive and/or unreachable maintainers" in the Developer's Reference... Thanks, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: How to help with neglected packages

2006-01-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:17:48PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: > I use a few packages, such as kernel-patch-exec-shield, which are > neglected by the maintainer. What can I do to help if the maintainer is > not responding to bug reports or e-mail? > > I have prepared patches fixing some bugs (even

How to help with neglected packages

2006-01-18 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I use a few packages, such as kernel-patch-exec-shield, which are neglected by the maintainer. What can I do to help if the maintainer is not responding to bug reports or e-mail? I have prepared patches fixing some bugs (even RC) and sent them to the