On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 15:24 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Svante Signell wrote: > > I can give a few examples of outdated packages having non-responsive > > maintainers, wine is one of them. See the wishlist bugs! Finally a set > > of NMUs solved that problem. > > Pointing at wine at this point is a red herring. A group of > interested volunteers fixed it. That's how these problems get solved.
I happened to be the bug submitter for the wine 1.2 series, #585409 it is dated June 10 2010! > If a you see an out-of-date package, please volunteer your time to > help fix it. If you're not a DD, you can do the work and send a > message to debian-mentors. I have tried several times and I can give you a recent example, see #610209 and especially #669368. I have tried to contribute, but to no avail (at least in this case). > We've also started various discussions and changes toward making it > more straightforward to fix these types of situations. e.g.: > http://bugs.debian.org/681833 Good to know! Progress is being made. -- 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/1343331891.16717.134.camel@x60