On Tue, 14 May 2002, Jerome Alet wrote:
<offtopicflamewar mode="on"> Good idea, and if Debian maintainers forwarded bug reports to upstream authors this would be really perfect ! Unfortunately this is not the case very often... </offtopicflamewar> Well, I think you used the wrong tag: <offtopic> might be appropriate but I see no reason for flamewar if there are true issues rised. You are completely right that some Zope products are very bad maintained in Debian. I just cared for some products in a so called Non Maintainer Upload (NMU) because the maintainer did not care about his tasks.
But there was a solution for those so called Mostly Inactive Maintainers: The packages where put under the hands of QA and thus become free for other interested people. This is not the case for Zope products: If the author / maintainer stops working on the product you have noc chance and it is *not visible* for the end user. This is exactly the problem I want to address. Kind regards Andreas. PS: Just tell me about which Debian packaged products you are talking about and I try to see if something can be made better.