On Thursday 31 May 2012 14:43:00 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 12-05-31 at 08:02pm, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > On 05/31/2012 04:36 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Hijacking, in my vocabulary, is when a non-maintainer takes matters > > > in his/her/their own hands and takes over maintainership without the > > > consent of the former maintainer and outside formal Debian > > > procedures. > > > > Nobody did that, or had the intention to do this here. > > > > I already asked you privately: please stop spreading wrong information > > about my intentions. This begins to be really annoying. > > I have no intention of spreading or amplifying wrong information. > > Do I understand it correctly that your intention in your original > post was to have the package orphaned and then have a team take over > maintainance? > > Do I understand correctly that your intention in your original post was > (after having tried to reach the maintainer for 5 days and having > noticed that others have tried for several years) to have the orphaning > occur without the consent of the maintainer?
Or you should better understand that "maintainer is always there to provide consent" is also a blatant assumption, and that some sort of fault-tolerance is actually needed in the real life, at least in my parallel reality. Sometimes it is impossible to reach the maintainer for a very long period of time, due to several even prosaic reasons, hence something or someone should be able to unblock the hard blockage in a reasonable amount of time. Maintaining the package in between for a very long amount of time (like years), by very long series of minimal, non-invasive NMUs, which would also imply no new upstream versions or newly created packaging tools, seems quite suboptimal to me. Thus orphan + adopt is perfectly in order. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> -- 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/201205311635.33008.danc...@spnet.net