ITA for an abandoned package: evolver case

Jerome BENOIT sphericaltriangle at rezozer.net
Wed Jun 8 10:59:16 UTC 2016


Thanks for the reply.

On 08/06/16 10:40, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> May I fill an ITA or something to signify that someone to working
> 
>> the [surface] evolver package ?
> 
> A bug with patches should be enough, ITA means somebody orphaning the package
> and only the maintainer/MIA team can do it.
> 
> But a bug with patches and you proposing the maintainership is something
> that might be appreciated by the community

Right now the package rocks.
But the upstream version is (very) old, and the Debian package material
clearly needs some refreshment. Is a patch really appropriate here ?
May I rather wait for  clear orphaning instead ?

Jerome

> 
> G.
> 



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