Hi, Sorry to answer only now... I was busy with my work. I think I can update the package soon.
Sincerely, Le 3 mars 2013 à 18:36, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbo...@axis.com> a écrit : > On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> >>> The maintainer seems MIA since June 2012, not responding to bug >>> reports nor direct mails. >>> The two most recent upstream releases not packaged. >> >> Why would this be a reason to *remove* a package? Especially after >> such a short time. The package hasn't even been orphaened. > > Well, "short time" is relative to how slow/fast things move. In this > case, upstream is _not_ moving slow, I would say :) > >> I have seen packages in Debian which haven't received updates from the >> maintainer after much longer periods. > > True, but let's not focus too much on that, please. This is a little bit > different. Dirk, Linus and many more working with upstream are pushing > things forward at higer pace than average. > >> This doesn't necessarrialy mean the maintainer is MIA. > > True. But nothing happened for many moons :) > >> Debian is run by volunteers and sometimes, people are busy with more >> important things in life. > > Aren't we all? Volunteers and trying to also cope with the "important > things in life"? The good thing with such a large community is that > there's a lot of backup. > >> This doesn't mean that anyone has the right to immediately remove their >> packages from Debian. > > True. But that doesn't mean either everyone is happy seeing things > stalling? > >> I suppose Khalid will be happy to continue to work on the package >> again once he finds the time. > > I certainly hope so. But, unfortunatelly, there was no sign of life from > Khalid for a, relatively, long time. No RFHs either, AFAICT. > >> I don't see any need (and I think it's impolite) to pressure him in such >> a way. > > I appologise, in that case. But that was not my intent. My intent is to > find a debian maintainer/developer that has the time to work on these 2 > packages. > > > Cheers, > > -- > Cristian -- 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/f2c5e82b-6aac-402b-a557-801174a01...@elfathi.fr