Re: How are packages associated with resigned debian developers handled?

2008-01-09 Thread Luk Claes
Paul Wise wrote: > On Jan 10, 2008 3:37 AM, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hmm, debian-qa is not a maintainer, it's not like the QA Team maintains >> packages, it is only a go-between maintainers IMHO. I don't really get >> the part about group maintenance in this discussion... > > His

Re: How are packages associated with resigned debian developers handled?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Jan 10, 2008 3:37 AM, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, debian-qa is not a maintainer, it's not like the QA Team maintains > packages, it is only a go-between maintainers IMHO. I don't really get > the part about group maintenance in this discussion... Historically the QA team has do

Re: How are packages associated with resigned debian developers handled?

2008-01-09 Thread Luk Claes
tim hall wrote: > Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> On ke, 2008-01-09 at 11:10 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >>> This is my context, but my question is generic. How are packages >>> maintained by developers that resign handled, and how should they be >>> handled. >> >> Why should they be handled differ

Re: How are packages associated with resigned debian developers handled?

2008-01-09 Thread Luk Claes
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > More than a year ago, Matthew Garrett resigned from Debian. His > decision is explained in > http://mjg59.livejournal.com/66647.html>. He still is listed as > the maintainer of several packages on > http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > and seem to kind of mainta

Re: How are packages associated with resigned debian developers handled?

2008-01-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Given Matthew's reasons for resigning, I think it would be respectful to spare him the emails Well, if there is no better communication channel than e-mail I would go for it starting: I would like to consider your wish to not to get any Debian rel

Re: How are packages associated with resigned debian developers handled?

2008-01-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ke, 2008-01-09 at 12:09 +, tim hall wrote: > Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > On ke, 2008-01-09 at 11:10 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >> This is my context, but my question is generic. How are packages > >> maintained by developers that resign handled, and how should they be > >> handled. >

Re: How are packages associated with resigned debian developers handled?

2008-01-09 Thread tim hall
Lars Wirzenius wrote: On ke, 2008-01-09 at 11:10 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: This is my context, but my question is generic. How are packages maintained by developers that resign handled, and how should they be handled. Why should they be handled differently from any other packages whos

Re: How are packages associated with resigned debian developers handled?

2008-01-09 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:10:01AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > This is my context, but my question is generic. How are packages > maintained by developers that resign handled, and how should they be > handled. Personally, I believe those packages should be orphaned > right away, to make i

Re: How are packages associated with resigned debian developers handled?

2008-01-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Tim Hall] > Surely that is the correct action? Well, I can't read it out of the Debian policy nor the developer reference, so I have followed the documented procedure of trying to get the previous maintainer to accept the takeover. But I agree that it would be the correct action, and believe it

Re: How are packages associated with resigned debian developers handled?

2008-01-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ke, 2008-01-09 at 11:10 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > This is my context, but my question is generic. How are packages > maintained by developers that resign handled, and how should they be > handled. Why should they be handled differently from any other packages whose maintainers are su

Re: How are packages associated with resigned debian developers handled?

2008-01-09 Thread tim hall
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: How are packages maintained by developers that resign handled, and how should they be handled. Personally, I believe those packages should be orphaned right away, to make it easier for others to take over. Surely that is the correct action? As it is now, one nee

How are packages associated with resigned debian developers handled?

2008-01-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
More than a year ago, Matthew Garrett resigned from Debian. His decision is explained in http://mjg59.livejournal.com/66647.html>. He still is listed as the maintainer of several packages on http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and seem to kind of maintain at least libpam-foreground (got one