-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 09:50:32PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Is there any formal requirement that a maintainer be responsive, or even do > his job at all? > > Is there a procedure for taking a package away from a maintainer, and > having someone else take care of maintaining it? > > I don't know anything about the packages in question or their maintainer, > but if he's really being unresponsive, somebody should look into it in a > serious way. > Hi Michael, yes there are procedures -- ususally asked on the debian-devel list they discuss that. With debian there are at least 2 people involved: the debian developer(s) who maintain the debian package and the upstream developer. Debian has procedures to 'ping' the debian folks and if those involved are unresponsive, then someone can make a request to take it over. - -Kev - -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted!
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