About package gnome-system-tools again.

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu at debian.org
Tue Oct 7 08:04:11 UTC 2014


On 07/10/14 08:41, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote:
>      Hello!
>
> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort has written on Monday,  6 October, at 23:16:
>> On 06/10/14 22:33, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote:
>
>>>       Thank you very much! I'll update them shortly fixing bugs and lintian
>>> problems. Could you be my sponsor for them when I do that? I'm not DD and
>>> even not DM yet (though I hope to get my key signed sometime) so I don't
>>> have rights to upload myself. Thank you in advance.
>
>> Not really, there's a reason why I want to give them up for adoption / get them
>> removed :)
>
>      No problem. That gets me suspicious though. The official maintainer
> for gnome-system-tools and system-tools-backends is Jose Carlos Garcia
> Sogo and for liboobs is Loic Minier, but you are replying on behalf of
> them, and now you mention some reason in context of uploading. Clear my
> mind and uncover what is so bad with those packages, please.

Sigh. Those packages are abandonware. There are no "official maintainers". The 
packages are team maintained so forget who is listen in the Maintainer field. If 
you want to adopt them, go ahead. Otherwise I'll ask for removal from the archive.

Emilio



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