Hi Paul, thanks for bringing this to my intention. The maintainership was not transferred by accident, instead the goal had been to have one of the upstream developers take over the Debian packaging. However, that process has stalled.
At this time, there is no point in keeping the package in Debian. Hence I filled a bug (#732129) asking ftp-masters to remove the package. This should be a practical alternative to a proper fix for now. If something requires via as a dependency in the future, we can bring it back. Sorry for the hassle, Michael On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi > > Currently the via package in Debian is one of the last package to block > the removal of lesstif2 [0]. This is due to a serious bug [1] in the > package which prevents if from migrating to testing. > > This e-mail aims to recheck the use of the lip...@cbs.mpg.de address, > which caused bug [1] to be reported. The bug is about violation of > policy section 3.3, which says that the maintainer must be specified > with a working e-mail address. > > @ Michael, do I understand the changelog correctly if I say that you > often copy the upstream packaging? The debian packaging svn is not > up-to-date, so I can't check if you intentionally moved the > maintainer-ship to the Lipsia group. If so, could you fix bug 724021 by > uploading a via package with your name and e-mail address as Maintainer > again? > > Paul > > [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=708462 > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724021 > [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-maintainer > >
