Policy wrt to removal of packages which are part of a task

[Gustavo Noronha Silva]

Hey,

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 16:33 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Josselin told that they need volunteers in the Gnome team to take care of
> those packages and that he should prod Gustavo. Loic then told that we
> shouldn't count on Gustavo because he sent a mail a few months ago stating
> that he had no time for Debian anymore.

Not really for all of my work in Debian (although for a large chunk of
it =/), but I didn't have enough time to keep up the work
update-notifier requires. It is quite a lot of utnubu work, figuring out
where ubuntu deviates from Debian on stuff such as python-apt, and it
does involve writing a bit of code and sending patches to the ubuntu
maintainer from time to time.

As for the removal of update-*, the problem does seem to be quite
straightforward to solve, but it would really be nice to try to upgrade
the package to the newest ubuntu version, too. While I have no time to
be the responsible maintainer, I'm up for working with anyone who wants
to get those back into testing.

See you,

-- 
Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov at debian.org>
Debian Project
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