Re: RFS: NMU goocanvas (updated package)

2010-05-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:43:17PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > In general, I think that we are a bit too careful when dealing with > non-responding maintainers. The maintainer of this package has ignored > comments on that bug report for more than a year, despite making an > upload on anot

Re: RFS: NMU goocanvas (updated package)

2010-05-08 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 08/05/10 at 20:20 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:01:00PM +0200, Jeffrey Ratcliffe a écrit : > > On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 09:57:53AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > You might want ping the maintainer directly and to report them as MIA > > > if they do not respond: > > > >

Re: RFS: NMU goocanvas (updated package)

2010-05-08 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Hi Charles, On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 08:20:39PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Perhaps you can propose to the current maintainer to open his package to > collaborative maintainance, by creating or joining a team, or simply accepting > co-maintainers (you?) who commit themselves on a longer term tha

Re: RFS: NMU goocanvas (updated package)

2010-05-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:01:00PM +0200, Jeffrey Ratcliffe a écrit : > On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 09:57:53AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > You might want ping the maintainer directly and to report them as MIA > > if they do not respond: > > He's been pinged on several occasions on #521722[1]. Ubuntu h

Re: RFS: NMU goocanvas (updated package)

2010-05-08 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 09:57:53AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > You might want ping the maintainer directly and to report them as MIA > if they do not respond: He's been pinged on several occasions on #521722[1]. Ubuntu has had new upstream version for nearly a year. I'll ping him again directly and

Re: RFS: NMU goocanvas (updated package)

2010-05-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.15-0.1 > of my package "goocanvas". It generally isn't appropriate to NMU a new upstream version. You might want ping the maintainer directly and to report them as MIA if they do not resp

RFS: NMU goocanvas (updated package)

2010-05-07 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.15-0.1 of my package "goocanvas". It builds these binary packages: libgoocanvas-common - translations for goocanvas libgoocanvas-dev - development libraries, include files and documentation for goocan libgoocanvas3 - canvas widget fo