How to orphan a package without being the maintainer

LIU Qi · External Since: Jun 11, 2009 Posts: 6

Hi all,
Long time ago I ITA(http://bugs.debian.org/430431) a package, prokyon3.
Because few persons use this software and I switched to gtk instead of
qt after I adopted this package (it is qt based), I use this software
very rarely and I want to orphan it. I have not uploaded this package
once and I am not the maintainer of this package. How should I orphan
this package? Just change the owner of this bug to QA group? Also I
think I submitted a wrong bug report:
http://bugs.debian.org/537334
How should I deal with that?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,
Qi
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Luk Claes · External Since: May 04, 2005 Posts: 654

LIU Qi wrote:
> Hi all,
> Long time ago I ITA(http://bugs.debian.org/430431) a package, prokyon3.
> Because few persons use this software and I switched to gtk instead of
> qt after I adopted this package (it is qt based), I use this software
> very rarely and I want to orphan it. I have not uploaded this package
> once and I am not the maintainer of this package. How should I orphan
> this package? Just change the owner of this bug to QA group? Also I
> think I submitted a wrong bug report:
> http://bugs.debian.org/537334
> How should I deal with that?

If I understand you correctly, it's just a matter of retitling the ITA
bug to RFA again.

Cheers

Luk

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Ben Finney · External Since: May 12, 2005 Posts: 51

LIU Qi <liuqi82.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> writes:

> Long time ago I ITA(http://bugs.debian.org/430431) a package,
> prokyon3.

That bug report started as an RFA, which you then retitled to an ITA.

> I have not uploaded this package once and I am not the maintainer of
> this package. How should I orphan this package?

You don't need to; you merely need to undo the ITA. This is done by
simply retitling the bug report again, back to an RFA as it was
originally.

It would be best to do so with a message to <430431.TakeThisOut@bugs.debian.org> and
Cc to <control.TakeThisOut@bugs.debian.org>. Put the control commands at the top of
the message, and then use the rest of the message as a prose explanation
of why you're changing it.

> Just change the owner of this bug to QA group?

The owner is still the original reporter, so that's fine for the RFA and
shouldn't change.

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