[courier-users] Fwd: Re: Looking for new Debian maintainers for courier-mta packages

[Mark Constable]

Hi Markus, I hope you don't mind me forwarding your email to the courier-users
mailing-list. There are some users their that wold be very interested in uptodate
packages for stretch that would hopefully also filter down to the ubuntu repos.

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Subject: Re: Looking for new Debian maintainers for courier-mta packages
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 18:56:58 +0200
From: Markus Wanner <***@bluegap.ch>
To: Ondřej Surý <***@sury.org>, debian-***@lists.debian.org, Willi Mann <***@debian.org>, courier-***@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: Mark Constable <***@renta.net>

Hi,

it's certainly a bit late, but I'd like to adopt the courier mta
packages, as stated in the wnpp bugs. (Stumbled over this old mail only
today.)

I have filled RFH (Request for Help) bug on courier package, but nobody
responded so far. Today I have changed that to RFA (Request for
Adoption) and I intend to properly orphan the packages before stretch
release and remove them from next Debian stable release. Well, unless
somebody comes up and makes a hard promise to take care of all Courier
MTA till Debian stretch (next stable) end-of-life and becomes
maintainers.

Well, that's hard to promise, but I'll try to get courier ready for
stretch, in the first place. If that effort isn't successful, it should
better be dropped from stretch.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=courier
(143 filled bugs) and it will need some time to comb through the list,
close the non-issues, fix the Debian related bugs and forward the
appropriate bugs to upstream. I would suggest it might be better this
would be a team effort.

While I'm a long-time courier user and DD, I clearly don't qualify as a
team. I'd certainly appreciate help and would instantly hand over
maintenance to one.

Kind Regards

Markus Wanner