Petter Reinholdtsen writes ("Bug#851747: sysvinit-utils: unmaintained package should not be Essential"): > [Ian Jackson] > > I don't want to do an upload of this package just to change the > > Uploaders - particularly at this stage of the release. > > Why not? I would guess particularly at this stage in the release, it is > smart to trim the list of maintainers down to those that plan to spend > time on the sysvinit package for the next stable release cycle.
FYI right now in sid, no people at all are named in debian/control - just the pkg-sysvinit-devel list. > > But, for the avoidance of any doubt, I hereby re-express my intent to > > help adopt this package. I would like the next upload to name me in > > Uploaders. I'm happy to share this role with the people who have > > written to #811377. > > Did you commit your name to git? If not, why not? I didn't think of it. I'm not very used to team maintenance, so please forgive me if I make obvious mistakes like this. I have done this now, with a changelog entry that closes these two bugs. I think that is appropriate but I'm sure someone will complain if not. I see that we have offers of help from various people in #811377. I have also added Benda Xu, based on https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=811377#25 I see that Benda doesn't seem to be a DD. Needless to say I am happy to sponsor uploads and/or review and push git branches. With sysvinit being maintained in collab-maint, I think Benda won't be able to push to it directly. Benda, I suggest that if you want to contribute you make a git branch in a tree of your own on alioth, and use git-request-pull. Simon Richter's message was more ambiguous. Simon, would you like to be listed in Uploaders ? If so please do that in the collab-maint repo, git.debian.org:/git/collab-maint/sysvinit.git Benda, and Simon, are you subscribed to pkg-sysvinit-devel ? We should have a conversation on the devel list about what changes we want to see in stretch (and what bugs we want and/or need to fix). Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.