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@Brian Thank you for volunteering to look after this package in Ubuntu! Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess. Ubuntu developers work together by consensus rather than holding individual maintainerships for packages. So you don't specifically need permission or approval to look after the package, you can just do it by sending patches and they will be reviewed on an individual basis, and after creating a good track record you can apply for permission to upload directly. If you can help, then I'll be happy to guide you through the process. I've subscribed to this bug so you can communicate with me here or in IRC. In the case of this particular issue, we try in general to not deviate from Debian, so initially I'd look to make the change in Debian first and then Ubuntu packaging can follow that change. From the Debian bug linked to by Ben above, it looks like the Debian maintainer is happy for someone to take over the package there, so it seems to me that if you can volunteer your time then the right thing to do would be to take over as package maintainer in Debian, bring the Ubuntu package into sync with Debian and then anything you do with the package in Debian will automatically reflect in Ubuntu. If you want to introduce a change in Ubuntu specifically by deviating from Debian, then I think that's fine providing that 0) it's the right thing for the Ubuntu project (ie. we have consensus, see point number 2); 1) you are prepared to look after it on an ongoing basis, which I think you've volunteered to do; and 2) in this case since it is a security issue I'd like the Ubuntu Security Team to be the final arbiter of the appropriateness of this particular change. If given the above you still volunteer, then please let me know and we can ask the security team to review this for my point number 2 above. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1384931 Title: NRPE does not respect "dont_blame_nrpe" argument To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nagios-nrpe/+bug/1384931/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
