My apologies, I am still getting my head around everything. It had occurred to me not long after I uploaded but I thought it was worth a shot. I shall get in touch with the MIA team and make it a QA upload, assuming #817410 hasn't resulted in it being removed from the archive by then
On 22 June 2016 at 03:22, Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote: > control: tag -1 +moreinfo > > Dear David, > > Thanks for working to fix up this package. > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 09:41:02PM +0100, David Jones wrote: > > * New upstream release (Closes: #279000, #375060, #413738) > > * Converted to quilt (3.0) (Closes: #664311) > > * Updated standards version to 3.9.8 > > * Updated menu file > > * Updated watch file (Closes: #449776, #691239) > > * Converted copyright to DEP-5 > > The changes I have quoted above are not usually appropriate for NMUs. > In particular, changing from a version 1.0 to a 3.0 source package could > annoy the current package maintainers a great deal. > > In this case, it looks like those package maintainers are inactive (no > uploads since 2005). You should contact the MIA team to have the > package orphaned. Then you can either adopt the package, or make your > changes as a QA upload. > > Tagging bug as moreinfo in case there is something about the NMU policy > I'm misunderstanding, so David can offer a justification. > > -- > Sean Whitton >
