Hello, On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 07:46, Rince <rincebr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ayman Negm is the maintainer of, among others, the gddrescue package. > The package hasn't been touched by him since 2006, and several bugs > about it have required NMUs by other people.
Ayman is been tracked in MIA database, and he's quite busy these days. > Several people have volunteered to take it over if he's AWOL, where did you see this? the bts, from a first fast check, show only interests in new upstream version to be uploaded, not in taking it over. There is only a proposed NMU 2 months old, and stop. > and I'll > throw my name in the pile as well...but again, only if he's gone. :) Please do this statement on a public place easily reachable when someone searches for information about the package; the best place is the BTS, for example replying to this bug: #460946 . Moreover, have you tried to contact the maintainer himself? I'm adding him here in CC. If the situation does not evolve in 1/2 week, please contact us back and we'll see what we can do. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org