Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi > > I'm interested in salvaging your package pcaputils, in accordance with > the Package Salvaging procedure outlined in the Developers Reference[1]. > I realised that you are upstream and Debian Maintainer in one person > which makes an ITS a bit unusual - feel free to refuse and simply take > over the packaging enhancements we provided (see below). Despite this > special situation your package meets the criteria for this process, and > I would love to assist in preserving and maintaining it. As the Salvage > process suggests, here is a list of the criteria that apply, in my > opinion: > > - NMUs, especially if there has been more than one NMU in a row. > - Bugs filed against the package do not have answers from the > maintainer. > - There are QA issues with the package. > > > I've set up a repository within the salvage-team space[2] to assist you > with this initial setup. If you decide not to accept the ITS, this > repository can easily be moved to another location, such as debian/, or > any place of your choosing. I hope this service helps make the > transition to using a Git repository on Salsa smoother and more > convenient for you. > > Your package was highlighted in the Bug of the Day[3] initiative, which > aims to introduce newcomers to manageable tasks and guide them through > the workflow to solve them. The focus of this initiative is on migrating > packages to Salsa, as it's a great way to familiarize newcomers with a > consistent Git-based workflow. > > Kind regards > Andreas. > > [1] > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging > [2] https://salsa.debian.org/savage-team/pcaputils > [3] https://salsa.debian.org/tille/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks
Hi, Andreas: If you're interested in taking over the pcaputils package, please feel free. Looking at my archives I don't think I ever kept this package in version control. So I would suggest either importing the archived versions of the package [0] into a new Git repository or just starting from the current revision in the archive. Separately, the upstream package is in rather poor shape, too, and it's unlikely I'll be developing it further since I don't use of the utilities any more. If you know anyone interested in taking over the upstream maintainership as well I would be happy to hand it off, too. [0] https://snapshot.debian.org/package/pcaputils/ Thanks! -- Robert Edmonds edmo...@debian.org
