Debian packaging of Picard

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 11-07-04 at 03:09pm, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 08:25:06PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > @Sébastien: It doesn't work like that - you cannot hijack a package 
> > without the consent of its current maintainer.  But if Adam either
> 
> Of course you can.  If you had consent of the maintainer, it would not 
> be hijacking.
> 
> In this case, the maintainer has not replied to this bug in a year, 
> and has not uploaded the package in over two years.

Sorry for my lousy way of expression.  Let me try again...:

You cannot simply hijack a package.

True, you can hijack a package - after ensuring that the current package 
maintainer is truly MIA (missing in action).  Just looking at the time 
since latest change to the package is *not* enough to judge its 
maintainer as MIA, and neither is looking at activity on bugreports for 
the package!


None of this is Truth(tm), only opinion.  Feel free to disagree.


 - Jonas

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