Bug#649514: src:nvidia-cg-toolkit: should this package be orphaned?

[Stefano Rivera]

Package: src:nvidia-cg-toolkit
Severity: wishlist
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: proposed-orphan

Dear maintainer,

I noticed that this package is in need of some work, and I think it's a
candidate for orphaning because:
* It's RC-Buggy (#639857)
* The last maintainer upload was in early 2009, > 2 years ago.
* The resignation of the most active co-maintainer (judging from git
  history [0])

[0]: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/nvidia-cg-toolkit.git;a=shortlog

There also wasn't any reply from a maintainer in recent bugs. In
particular:
* The requested move to non-free, meaning it wouldn't have to download
  pre-build binaries during installation (making the package
  significantly more reliable to install, and usable as a
  build-dependency) #502457
* Two new upstream version bugs.

And, relatedly: A new developer (Miguel, CCed) has tried to get involved
in the maintenance of this packaged, with no response from a maintainer
[1] (although nobody said they had contacted you). This discussion
included a suggestion to move the package to pkg-nvidia-devel (CCed),
which may be interested in co-maintenance, if there were an active
maintainer. [2]

[1]: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTimWtDg1-7QSdFkk890o74O9s0E2DoeGxz6kR1hE@mail.gmail.com
[2]: http://lists.debian.org/87d3k0wja0.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu

If you still have interest in maintaining this package, please close
this bug and fix the RC issue (I think the best way forward is the
approach I took in Ubuntu: using the upstream binaries as "source" and
moving the package to non-free)
http://patches.ubuntu.com/n/nvidia-cg-toolkit/

It looks like there are people interested in helping you maintain this
package, if you would accept co-maintainers. If there is no response to
this bug in, say, 3 months, I'll assume that the package can be orphaned
and these interested people may take it over.

SR

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