Hi Nikolas, thanks for offering to help for the package, but things are a bit more complicated…
Am Wed, May 06, 2026 at 03:29:02PM -0400 schrieb Nikolas Nyby: > On Wed, 06 May 2026 20:35:08 +0200 > Tobias Frost <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hallo Nikolas, > > > > the RFS titles this as NMU, but you are changing the maintainer, > > basically taking over maintainership. > > > > As I cant find a Orphaning bug or some other indications that this has > > been agreed with the current maintainer, can you provide pointers? > > Have you discussed this with Thijs? > > > > Hi Tobias, > So yes, that was a small mistake on my part when I packaged the updated > 2.1.8 version - my original 1.19.9 package stated myself as simply the > uploader. (This is also not fine for a NMU, the Uploaders: field has a specific meaning that you are co-maintaining a package, while a non-maintainer-upload, well, is done not by the maintainer. See Policy and Developers Refernce for a description of those fields) > I wanted to indicate that I am open to taking over maintenance of this > package if help is needed here. My primary goal is to just help get the > updated version 2.1.8 into Debian, so I intend to change the maintainer > back to Thijs for now, unless we hear more from Thijs' perspective. NMUs are not a appropiate way to transfer maintainership and also not a way to signal the intention to do so. The NMUs procedure defines what changes are are appropiate and how to perform a NMU. Please check the developers reference for details. If you want to become the maintainer of the package, read up on the ITS process, this might be the/a better approach for your case. But note that being the maintainer is a long time commitment to take care about the package. Cheers, -- tobi > Thanks, > Nik
