Dear all, I did not find a match for "mia" or "hijack" in the tables of content of the policy or of the developper's reference.
If Brian R Furry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) were MIA, I would like to hijak his "seaview" package, for which the upstream author has made improvements that allow to move the package from contrib to main. The maintainer did not answer to the bugs I posted half a year ago, one of them being potentially release critical (wrong licence in debian/copyright). He also did not upload anything at all for one year. Seaview it an editor for multiple alignments of biological sequences, and I have been working recently on bringing more sequence aligners to Debian. Having an editor for the output of these programs in "main" rather than "contrib" would help to assemble a coherent framework for biological sequence analysis in Etch, but it necessitates to upgrade to the latest upstream version. In my understanding, this is too much for a NMU. Therefore, unless I am told not to do so, and of course unless I am wrong to thing that Brian Furry is MIA, I would like to put the package under the responsability of the "Debian-Med packaging team" (see http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-med/ and http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-med/), and to submit an upgrade to my sponsor before the 8th of October. (By the way, is freeze time minus 10 days the deadline for uploads ?). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
