Yes. I wouldn't worry much (hey we *do* have good people around here -- we must not forget that).

The packages I (might) want to upload are not so critical (for that we have CSSU, even if I don't use it..). This is just stuff *I* use on my N900 (talking openssh and rsync mainly) where i want to have an up-to-date version.

I have seen that rsync is unmaintained, openssh is version 5.1 from 2009, nano is a giant mess (nano, nano-tiny, nano-opt, nano-2.0.7) with versions that crash or unexpectedly chop lines (hint: word wrapping is something you do *visually*, *non-destructively*, especially if you're editing code for pete's sake!).

for bash we have { bash, bash2 (diablo only), bash3, bash4 and bash4-opt }, all of them hopelessly out of date.

I don't know if the people listed as maintainers for those packages still exist or give a flying duck about the packages they maintain, perhaps techstaff should ping all maintainers and see if the pong. Otherwise *plonk* (sorry, I'm particularly poetic today. Must be the headache).

Anyway, it's not so bad. It's good enough that the version of bash in our "ancient" N900 is (if we want) more recent that the one in most "modern" computers in this world.

Cheers.