On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 06:58:06AM +1000, An?bal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 21:45 +0200, Sergio Suarez wrote: > > Hi Im new in debian develop and want adopt the orphan package zed, I = > > need a sponsor > > > > Package name: zed > > Package description: Powerful, multipurpose, configurable text editor > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=3Dno&bug=3D188181 > > That URL took me nowhere. The URL abbreviation for bug 188181 is:
Quoted-printable was the problem, methinks. Ugh. > In addition to Matthew Palmer's suggestions, you also need to retitle bug > #188181 from O (orphaned) to ITA (intent to adopt) by sending a mail <sigh> How can we be elitist if we spell it out for them? <grin> Retitling the bug was actually part of my suggestion, in an indirect way. The developer's reference gives details on this sort of thing. > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and cc debian-devel@lists.debian.org > with the following two lines: > > retitle 188181 ITA: zed -- Powerful, multipurpose, configurable text editor > stop Or you could be polite and thank the BTS after you're done. > Include the following line in zed's changelog file: > > * New maintainer. (Closes: #188181) And remember, of course, to actually change the Maintainer: field in debian/control... - Matt
