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Re: Ettiquite/Required readings on contacting Maintainers/Packagers

From Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Ettiquite/Required readings on contacting Maintainers/Packagers
Date 2018-10-06 01:10 +0200
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On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 17:32:17 -0500, Austin LaBerta wrote:

> I had recently updated to sid and found myself a little confundled when
> i noticed the ranger package was still 9 releases out of date and
> running on python2. What are some things I should check prior to
> telling the maintainer to "please update this"? 

You read

  https://packages.debian.org/sid/ranger ,

in particular the Debian Resources: section.

You read the bug reports and decide on whether to add to an existing
bug report and whether you can make a good case for the package being
updated.

-- 
Brian.

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Ettiquite/Required readings on contacting Maintainers/Packagers Austin LaBerta <oct2pus@jade.moe> - 2018-10-06 00:50 +0200
  Re: Ettiquite/Required readings on contacting Maintainers/Packagers Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-06 01:10 +0200

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