On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:14:45AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > [ adding MIA to Cc, for further inquiries, and the maintainer himself ] > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 06:33:05PM +0200, Harald Jenny wrote: > > I'm sorry for disturbing all of you but I'm currently facing the problem > > that > > the maintainer of the Debian sendmail package, Richard A Nelson, seems to be > > lost. He does not react to bug reports nor mails concerning the libmilter > > package which is used by some other software. Please if anybody is in > > contact > > with him try to convince him that an update of this package is really > > needed. > > If there is no response from him I must contact the release team and ask if > > they would be willing to accept an NMU as the bug in libmilter bites a lot > > of > > other software. > > Dear Harald,
Hi Stefano > you don't need to wait for any specific authorization to > prepare an NMU. Well I personally find it impolite to prepare an NMU without prior getting in touch with the maintainer... > You can do that right ahead by following the guidelines > detailed in the Developer's Reference at > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu . Thanks for the hint! > In > particular, the guidelines will tell you the appropriate DELAYED/XX > queues to use depending on bug severity and age your NMU will fix. Hmmm the bug lingers there a long time already and handicaps some other software (including mine ;-) ). > > Of course, if you're not a Debian Developer, you'll then need someone to > sponsor your upload. Yes I'm not but I guess the time will come... > > Once the upload is done, you can then get in touch with the release team > to check whether they'd be willing to unblock the package and have it > into Squeeze, as we're currently in freeze (and as apparently no > sendmail bug is currently marked as RC). I know, I'm currently already in contact with the release team concerning other packages - and concerning the RC bug: There is already a bug report but I failed to make it RC :-/. > > Cheers. Thanks and a nice day Harald > > -- > Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 > z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ > Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere > ti resta John Fante -- V. Caposella .......| ..: |.......... -- C. Adams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100928070609.ga3...@harald-has.a-little-linux-box.at