On 2024-04-20 at 16:19, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Sat, 2024-04-20 at 07:54 -0400, P. J. McDermott wrote: > > Then the salvage procedure can play out for the full 28+ days > > specified > > by developers-reference (21 days to allow the maintainer to object > > followed by a DELAYED/7 adoption upload). I've already soft-proposed > > to > > salvage in bug #1069280 yesterday. And as mentioned there I'm not > > yet a > > DD or DM, so I'd need to find a sponsor (and access to > > debian/less.git). > > In the light of the recent XZ backdoor, wouldn't it generally be more > desirable to get more co-maintainers, rather than replacing an existing > one?
Sure, that's exactly the plan. I don't intend to remove or prevent anyone from co-maintaining src:less. Note that my proposal to adopt, co-maintain, or salvage (bug #1069280) said that I would keep the current maintainer in Uploaders or Maintainer unless he requests otherwise. My intent is not to force out the existing maintainer, but to help where he seems to have been too busy to properly maintain src:less for at least two years. (No shame in being busy, but it looks like the package could use some help keeping up with new upstream releases, security issues like these, etc.) And the repository is already in the "debian" Salsa group (formerly "collab-maint" on Alioth), where any DD can commit to it. Also, if I adopt or salvage src:less, I plan to allow low-threshold NMU[1]. Other than that, I don't know of an appropriate team for it. [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/LowThresholdNmu -- Patrick "P. J." McDermott: http://www.pehjota.net/ Lead Developer, ProteanOS: http://www.proteanos.com/ Founder and CEO, Libiquity: http://www.libiquity.com/
