RE: Process to adopt moribund packages?

2011-03-14 Thread roy hills
Contacting the current maintainer should IMO always be the (obvious) first step - if you feel the package is neglected, ask if he would mind if you'd take over. The reason I think it's been abandoned is that there's been a more recent upstream version for about two and a half years now.

Re: Process to adopt moribund packages?

2011-03-13 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Saturday 12 March 2011 14.50:53 Neil Williams wrote: roy hills royhi...@hotmail.com wrote: I know the current package maintainer can file an RFA, or orphan the package, but is there a process for a new maintainer to take the package over if the current maintainer doesn't update it but

Process to adopt moribund packages?

2011-03-12 Thread roy hills
Is there a process for a prospective Debian developer to adopt a package that's not been updated for a long time? I know the current package maintainer can file an RFA, or orphan the package, but is there a process for a new maintainer to take the package over if the current maintainer doesn't

Re: Process to adopt moribund packages?

2011-03-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:30:05 + roy hills royhi...@hotmail.com wrote: Is there a process for a prospective Debian developer to adopt a package that's not been updated for a long time? http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa I know the current package