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Re: Python packages by maintainer
On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 14:00 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Which is 10 days ago, unfortunately. Can nobody help him to fix this
> problem?
Besides that it was already *after* the due date. But it's hard to fix
a problem that you can't reproduce.
> NMU?
http://wiki.debian.org/NonMaintainerUpload
> Jari is responsive, even though not quite as responsive as I'd expect
> from a package maintainer, especially on the base cygwin mailing list.
BTW I have a request pending[1] for a xmlto update needed for some X.Org
documentation. But the Python upgrade is much more important.
> I don't think it's a good idea to define a package as orphaned as long
> as the maintainer replies to mail and still uploads new packages. That
> sets a bad precedent. What about working with Jari to fix the issue
> instead, and what about you, Jari, to be somewhat more responsive? Did
> you try to debug this issue? Is there maybe just some DLL missing or
> the permissions of the DLL are wrong?
I just hope this doesn't take too much longer...
Yaakov
[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-05/msg00146.html