Package: procserv Severity: wishlist Dear Ralph Lange,
My name is Henrique Simoes, and you may have seen some of my messages in the EPICS tech-talk in recent years. I've been introduced to the EPICS world last year when I started working at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS). Naturally, one of the software I started interacting with is procServ. At the beginning of the year, I realized that procServ latest release (2.8.0) is not packaged in Debian [1]. Around the same period in time, Charles, who reads us in copy, taught me a little bit about Debian packaging for personal purposes. To practice what I had learned, I then considered taking up this task of upgrading procServ to the latest release. Discussing about this with Charles, I decided to start with a little refactoring [2] of the existing package to conform with the latest standards, and then move on to the upgrade. When digging more about this I noticed a couple of things. First, your last interaction with the procServ packaging in Debian happened in 2017, while the latest upstream release is 2019 (five years ago). Second, in 2020, Martin Konrad from FRIB attempted to upgrade it to 2.8.0 [3], but it turned out not to be merged (and not even seen?). I wonder if that could have been something with the fact that Debian migrated from Alioth to Salsa in the meantime. Considering that and the fact that Debian seems to be going towards collaborative package maintenance [4], I'd like to know if you are okay with having procserv co-maintained by me. If you agree with this, I can add myself to the Uploaders field in my existing MR [2], so nothing will be required from your part. It will likely be a good approach to also move the package Git repository to Debian namespace [5], where most standalone packages live. I'm sure Charles will be able to handle this. Taking the opportunity, I'd also like to verify if your PGP key has the following fingerprint: C495 0D86 9EC0 5EA3 F4AB 743B 9CDF 4AF4 569D D158 I've been able to get it from keys.opengpg.org, and I'd like to add signature verification to the package (as supported by uscan(1)), since you have provided signed tarballs upstream. I look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Henrique F. Simoes [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/procserv [2] https://salsa.debian.org/henriquesimoes/procserv/-/merge_requests/1 [3] https://salsa.debian.org/rlange-guest/procserv/-/merge_requests/1 [4] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#collaborative-maintenance [5] https://salsa.debian.org/debian
