Bug#811377: Bug#851747: sysvinit-utils: unmaintained package should not be Essential

Hi Ian, Thank you for the follow up. Ian Jackson writes: > 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

Bug#811377: Bug#851747: sysvinit-utils: unmaintained package should not be Essential

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:21:46PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > 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.

Bug#811377: Bug#851747: sysvinit-utils: unmaintained package should not be Essential

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

Bug#811377: 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

Bug#811377: Bug#851747: sysvinit-utils: unmaintained package should not be Essential

Ian Jackson writes ("Bug#851747: sysvinit-utils: unmaintained package should not be Essential"): > Simon McVittie writes ("Bug#851747: sysvinit-utils: unmaintained package > should not be Essential"): > > sysvinit appears to be unmaintained, but it builds an Essential package > >