Hi Vincent, I'm intentionally answering to debian-mentors instead of debian-devel.
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:27:22PM -0700, Vincent W. Chen wrote: > My questions involve bug #684395 and the FVWM package. Though the bug > is only severity: wishlist, I do hope to see newer version make it to > Wheezy, Feel free to ask debian-release to grant an unblock for the newer upstream release as an exception to the freeze policy. > seeing as how the last NMU was on 2012 May 5 and the last > update by maintainer Manoj was on 2010 Jun 8. As indicated in the bug > report, the current version in Debian is outdated and no longer > maintained by upstream. I have contacted Manoj and his reply was > included in the bug report, but no update has been received from him > since, which was over a month ago. > > I am willing to co-maintain the package with Manoj, or even maintain > it by myself if he's no longer interested in dealing with it. But > since there has been no reply Manoj Srivastava wrote on the bug report "I would love to have a co-maintainer. I would even give up maintainership, if you prefer that.". http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=15;bug=684395 > from him I now turn to the list: any > suggestion on what I should do now, or what I should have done? You can choose between the two options Manoj Srivastava gave you. Your package at mentors has "needs sponsor = no", so you could switch that to "yes" if you are looking for a sponsor. > > As I stated before, I am not trying to hijack his package. As a user > of FVWM I just want to see it updated and some bugs closed. I'm just > willing to pick up where he left off and learn the ropes if Manoj > don't want to take care of the package anymore. It is good that you want to pick up maintenance of this package. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121004054449.gb23...@master.debian.org
