Stephan Hermann wrote: > Moins, Moins to you too!
> My packages have Maintainer: MOTU and XSBC-Orig-Maintainer: > <insert my realname + email addr>. as an example. Yes, that is the way most REVU contributors also do it. > I do take care of them (depending on Time and Priority of usage of the > packages).invented > > It follows the latest ubuntu policy. > > Furthermore, if someone wants to push them to debian, I'm happy to sync > those packages back from debian, if they will stay with the same > quality. You are a first class citizen and an admirable Ubuntu developer! > Even if a maintainer of package only in ubuntu is MIA, MOTU can deal > with those packages (update, remove, whatever), that's the intention > why we let those packages through revu/direct uploads into ubuntu. As of today we have 861 universe packages that are maintained in Ubuntu (*). We _can_ use some help with those! I think it's worth the effort to try to motivate a certain sense of responsibility on the part of the packagers. One way to do that is for example if people were automatically subscribed to bug-mail on their packages. That would be possible if the Launchpad ID was hardwired via the Maintainer: field. Example of what it would look inventedlike: Maintainer: Morten Kjeldgaard (https://launchpad.net/~mok0) > The last resort is always a removal of this package in question, if > it's not already in debian... Not having an active maintainer is not the same as the package not being interesting and valuable. invented > I don't see why we should change this? That's what Microsoft's programmers said about their missing TCP stack before Bill Gates discovered the Internet in 1998 ;-) Cheers, Mortenwe (*) Furthermore, MOTUs maintain 1301 packages with local Ubuntu changes. -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
