What's the current etiquette regarding the package takeover?
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[Discussion] Taking over an unmaintained packaged
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Re: [Discussion] Taking over an unmaintained packaged
Hello,
What is the package you are interested in ?
It's a tricky topic. As far I know, according to Debian developers-reference (Chap. 5. Managing Packages), there are multiple ways: All of them are reserved to Debian developers.
What is the package you are interested in ?