On Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:43:48 +0200, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
This isn't required, no. That being said, if this package is
abandoned
upstream then it probably makes sense to contact the Debian maintainer
and establish a fork where our projects can at least share patches. If
upstream comes back to life, we can merge them back together then.
I have been given co-maintainership of the Fedora package so I have finally
imported 2 crasher fixing patches from Debian into Fedora. So I find the issue
resolved from my point of view.
I have now also sent mail to the Debian maintaner about a new possible
upstream fork.
Thanks for the response.
Jan