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It is not OK to simply take over a package that you feel is neglected
— that would be package hijacking. You can, of course, contact the
current maintainer and ask them if you may take over the package.
-However, without their assent, you may not take over the package.
-Even if they ignore you, that is still not grounds to take over a
-package. If you really feel that a maintainer has gone AWOL (absent
-without leave), post a query to &email-debian-private;. You may also
-inform the QA group (cf. <ref id="mia-qa">).
+If you have reason to believe a maintainer has gone AWOL
+(absent without leave), see <ref id="mia-qa">.
+ <p>
+Generally, you may not take over the package without the assent of the
+current maintainer. Even if they ignore you, that is still not grounds to
+take over a package. Complaints about maintainers should be brought up on
+the developers' mailing list. If the discussion doesn't end with a positive
+conclusion, and the issue is of a technical nature, consider bringing it to
+the attention of the technical committee (see the <url name="technical
+committee web page" id="&url-tech-ctte;"> for more information).
<p>
If you take over an old package, you probably want to be listed as the
package's official maintainer in the bug system. This will happen
package, they're responsible for the upload anyhow, and should know what
happened to the person they sponsored.
<p>
+It is also allowed to post a query to &email-debian-devel;, asking if anyone
+is aware of the whereabouts of the missing maintainer.
+ <p>
Once you have gathered all of this, you can contact &email-debian-qa;.
People on this alias will use the information you provided in order to
decide how to proceed. For example, they might orphan one or all of the