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   Message 27,117 of 28,835   
   Andreas Tille to All   
   Bug#563114: NMU of rdesktop to delayed=1   
   10 Feb 26 22:00:01   
   
   From: tille@debian.org   
      
   Hi László,   
      
   wow, that was quick - thanks a lot.   
      
   Am Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 09:42:00PM +0100 schrieb László Böszörményi (GCS):   
   > On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 9:38 PM Andreas Tille  wrote:   
   > > I'm aware that you're actively maintaining several packages. That's why   
   > > I delayed the NMU for 15 days (instead of the usual 10), in case you had   
   > > good reasons not to upload rdesktop and to give you sufficient time to   
   > > ask me to cancel the NMU if needed.   
   >  Yes, please cancel the NMU.   
      
   Done.   
      
   > > For your convenience, I've created a repository under the Debian team on   
   > > Salsa so you can easily review all the changes I made:   
   > >   
   > >    https://salsa.debian.org/debian/rdesktop   
   >  OK, I will follow up on that.   
      
   Fine.   
      
   > > While working on this, I noticed that a few bugs tagged with "patch"   
   > > could be closed, so I did that. I also retagged some patches as   
   > > "upstream" or "moreinfo" in the BTS.   
   >  Indeed. The problem is that I've lost my access to where I can try   
   > out patches. Could you test those?   
      
   I have simply read the code and checked what patch was applied upstream   
   and what not.  If the patch was not applied I was tagging the bug   
   upstream or moreinfo.   
      
   > > The main motivation was that upstream appears to be inactive[1]. I   
   > > thought this might be useful information for users, and perhaps also   
   > > increase the chance that someone might be interested in taking over   
   > > upstream maintenance.   
   >  Upstream was looking for that for some time. As I know, no one volunteered.   
      
   Yes, it has not been revived.  Thus I decided to clarify the situation   
   for Debian users.   
      
   > > Please let me know if you would prefer that I remove the upload from the   
   > > delayed queue.   
   >  Please do so.   
      
   Done.   
      
   > Thanks,   
      
   Thanks to you.  Your prompt response is really welcome and I hope my   
   work is welcome anyway.   
      
   Kind regards   
      Andreas.   
      
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