Re: Intend to intend to hijack SeaView.
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Christoph Berg wrote: If you hijack the package, please do it properly - do not let the old maintainer rot in the Uploaders: field. Inactive maintainers as co-maintainers are a pita for MIA tracking. Ahh well, never thought about this - thanks for the hint. So just keep the debian-med development team as maintainer and everybody including the old maintainer is invited to join this group. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intend to intend to hijack SeaView.
Re: Andreas Tille 2006-09-19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] The situation you described qualifies for a group maintained upload. You might keep the original maintainer in the Uploaders field for the sake of politeness because a complete hijack is regarded rude (even if the facts you describe would justify it IMHO). If you hijack the package, please do it properly - do not let the old maintainer rot in the Uploaders: field. Inactive maintainers as co-maintainers are a pita for MIA tracking. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Intend to intend to hijack SeaView.
Dear all, I did not find a match for mia or hijack in the tables of content of the policy or of the developper's reference. If Brian R Furry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) were MIA, I would like to hijak his seaview package, for which the upstream author has made improvements that allow to move the package from contrib to main. The maintainer did not answer to the bugs I posted half a year ago, one of them being potentially release critical (wrong licence in debian/copyright). He also did not upload anything at all for one year. Seaview it an editor for multiple alignments of biological sequences, and I have been working recently on bringing more sequence aligners to Debian. Having an editor for the output of these programs in main rather than contrib would help to assemble a coherent framework for biological sequence analysis in Etch, but it necessitates to upgrade to the latest upstream version. In my understanding, this is too much for a NMU. Therefore, unless I am told not to do so, and of course unless I am wrong to thing that Brian Furry is MIA, I would like to put the package under the responsability of the Debian-Med packaging team (see http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-med/ and http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-med/), and to submit an upgrade to my sponsor before the 8th of October. (By the way, is freeze time minus 10 days the deadline for uploads ?). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intend to intend to hijack SeaView.
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Charles Plessy wrote: Therefore, unless I am told not to do so, and of course unless I am wrong to thing that Brian Furry is MIA, I would like to put the package under the responsability of the Debian-Med packaging team (see http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-med/ and http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-med/), and to submit an upgrade to my sponsor before the 8th of October. (By the way, is freeze time minus 10 days the deadline for uploads ?). The situation you described qualifies for a group maintained upload. You might keep the original maintainer in the Uploaders field for the sake of politeness because a complete hijack is regarded rude (even if the facts you describe would justify it IMHO). Kind regards and thanks for your efforts Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
