Hi, On 26.05.2012 20:11, Julian Wollrath wrote: >> Also, I'm not sure about new upstream releases via NMU. Have you offered to >> co-maintain ? > No I have not, because I was under the impression, that it is not possible > for > a non Debian developer to co-maintain a package. But if this impression was > wrong I would willingly offer to co-maintain. > > Since I am new to all of this, please accept my apologies if I offended > somebody with the approach I have taken, which now seems kind of rude in my > view.
Everyone - including you - can maintain packages. You are not only allowed to co-maintain them, but also all alone. You still need a Debian Developer to sponsor your packages, but that person is not responsible for the package. Having that said, it is fine to NMU a package when doing so fixes two release critical bugs and there is no need to apologize if that makes Debian better(tm). Co-maintaining the package is even better, but this requires an acknowledge by the current maintainer(s) and if they are not responsive that's not going to help you. Therefore I would suggest you, that you can try to get in touch with Patrick and offer your help with the package but you still prepare a NMU meanwhile. If you obey the NMU rules [*] I do not see a problem in doing so. [*] See the document bremner linked. Basically you are supposed to make minimally invasive changes only. Do not change packaging style, do not do cosmetic changes which are a matter of taste and try to keep the differences low. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D
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