On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 12:37:19PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Tobias,
>
> Am Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 07:59:56PM +0200 schrieb Tobias Frost:
> >
> > There is the possilbity to salavage the packagei [1], but that of course
> > will
> > only work if the person agrees to take over maintainance and add their name
> > to
> > Uploaders: or Maintainer: [2].
>
> I want to be able to immediately respond to future problems in this
> package. I'm fine with putting Debian Med team as maintainer, but not
> my personal ID (maximum as Uploader since I do not have any personal
> packages).
>
> Do you think this would be the appropriate action (which I personally
> would even prefer over debian/ space)? The conservative criteria
> are fulfilled.
Yes, (if your name is in Uploaders:) this is is fine.
> Kind regards
>Andreas.
>
> > The package can be put into a team's umbrella at the ITS time. This
> > does not need an explicit OK, though the maintainer can veto.
> >
> > [1]
> > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging
> > https://wiki.debian.org/PackageSalvaging
> >
> > [2] This is a feature, the ITS procedure has been designed exactly that
> > way, to avoid that people just do an upload and drop the package
> > immediatly afterwards, as this will likely only upset the current
> > maintainer without long-term benefits to the package - kind of to
> > avoid the reaction Marc predicted.
> > If taking over the maintaince is not the goal, remember NMU allow
> > one to fix almost every bug, also wishlist bugs are regularily in
> > scope. And bugs can be filed, if needed.
> > Some Background story:
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/07/msg00453.html
> >
> > --
> > tobi
>
>
>
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