Bug#874428: RFS: goldendict/1.5.0~git20160508.g92b5485-1.2 [RC, NMU] (original) (raw)

On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 04:06:19PM +0800, Boyuan Yang wrote:

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On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 12:11:57PM +0800, Boyuan Yang wrote:

Man thanks Boyuan for taking care about goldendict!

Dear mentors and Dmitry,

  • Add myself into uploaders list. (Hijacking package)

As I learned on DebConf17'S we've have a (proposed) process for this. Lets bring it to live and salvage the package as described here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/09/msg00654.html

(please, involve the MIA team if you find neglected packages.)

Thanks for caring about goldendict,

tobi

Wondering if there's any concensus on this topic. Replies in this thread shows there are still some disagreement on concrete actions of "Salvaging" packages. An article on Debian Wiki or email on debian-devel-announce would be much more convincing.

We've had a discussion @DebConf17 (in the "if you love a package let it go" BOF) where this link was brought up by the audience as an possible solution to the problem that some packages are quite neglected. AFAIR it was suggested that we've give the process a try.

While I understand that you'd like some official announcement, we're not yet there -- this will only happen once we've tried it serveral times :) But the salvaing process will for sure generate less friction than a hijack.

Besides, MIA Team is not the right option here; DDPO shows that the maintainer is still active on other packages. [2]

While the MIA team has power on cases like this, we also handle cases where e.g the maintainer has appearantly too much on his plate; at least we can get in touch with the maintainer and indeed that helps quite often to find a solution. (Note that I am also MIA team member)

Thanks, Boyuan Yang

[2] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=unera%40debian.org

-- tobi (partly MIA hat on)

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