On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Adam Vogt <vogt.adam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * On Monday, August 11 2008, Jan de Groot wrote: > >>Our web frontend works with 2 things when it comes to assigning >>maintainers: >>- the repository it is in >>- the architecture of the package >> >>So when I package glib2, I add two packages, one for i686 and one for >>x86_64. Because of our signoff policy, I will have to do updates to >>testing, creating another set of packages. >>The testing packages are created and deleted everytime they're moved to >>the core or extra repository. It makes no sense to adopt these packages >>everytime. If you flag a testing package, nobody gets notified. Flag the >>extra/core package instead. > > Thanks for clearing that up. > > In the case of bitlbee, the package in [extra] appears orphaned. If that's > not the case, wouldn't it be better if the web interface determined > maintainership from the pkgbuild itself? Simo was the last owner of that package, but he has since orphaned it on purpose. There is currently no maintainer.
