That would be fantastic. Although I live on Debian systems, I don't really know anything about making Debian packages. I was looking at what it took and it was more than I could do.
The best thing would be some kind of script to go from the Git repository to the package. I looked at the difference between the Git log comments and the changelog. On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 10:33 AM Ryan Kavanagh <r...@debian.org> wrote: > > Package: mlton > Version: 20130715-3 > Severity: important > > Hi, > > I intend to salvage [0] the mlton package. It has been uninstallable for > years now [1], and has had other RC bugs since 2018 [2, 3]. I attempted > to contact the current maintainer a month ago (with MIA CC'd) to > determine if they were still interested in maintaining the package, but > I have received no response. > > Best, > Ryan > > [0] > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=992097 > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=904475 > [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917644 > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: bookworm/sid > APT prefers unstable-debug > APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, > 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, > TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE > Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not > set > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > Versions of packages mlton depends on: > ii mlton-compiler 20130715-3 > ii mlton-doc 20130715-3 > ii mlton-tools 20130715-3 > > mlton recommends no packages. > > mlton suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > -- > |)|/ Ryan Kavanagh | 4E46 9519 ED67 7734 268F > |\|\ https://rak.ac | BD95 8F7B F8FC 4A11 C97A
