Re: Tracking forks of dead upstreams

2016-09-14 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 01:30:18PM +, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > What to do when a project with a dead upstream is "forked" and > development continues under the same name > Patrick very quickly replied and declined with (IMHO very reasonable) [...] > arguments > > * people still associate g

Re: Tracking forks of dead upstreams

2016-09-14 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 01:30:18PM +, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > How would you generally deal with a situation like this? > > * switch homepage to github, convince github owner to tag new upstream > release and update package to new release > + properly documented where develo

Tracking forks of dead upstreams

2016-09-14 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
Hi, TL;DR: What to do when a project with a dead upstream is "forked" and development continues under the same name Long story: gnarwl, a GPLv2 LDAP-based email autoresponder developed by Patrick Ahlbrecht, has recently been orphaned in Debian. Since a legacy mail system of my employer still uses