On Tue, 29 Oct 2024, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 11:04:26PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > In any case, please decide either to commit to maintain this package or to > > let me > > do it before it is too late for the freeze. > > I reviewed debbugs 'git log'. There are work around May done by you > and Otto to make the GIT repository in a state suitable to an upload > to unstable, which is a very good news. Unfortunately, this effort was > not concluded by an upload, so the long standing RC bug was not fixed > in unstable.
First off, sorry for taking so long to respond, and I appreciate you continuing to be polite in response to my silence. The reason why I didn't upload, is because I didn't want to commit to maintaining the package through a stable release. If you're willing to commit to maintaining it, I'm happy for you to become part of the debbugs team for the purpose of maintaining the packaging of the upstream codebase in Debian, committing and tagging those releases as appropriate in salsa. I'll try to stay out of the way as much as possible (since I'm just barely keeping up with the minimum here.) In exchange, I'll request that you do the following: 1) Keep issues which are open in the debbugs package and require fixes upstream (or new development) open. [I use this as the "upstream" bug tracker, which is why I don't want to remove the package from Debian. Once they are fixed upstream, you can close them as usual in a changelog. I commit to making sure the changelogs in release_2.6 and master reflect those fixes.] 2) Choose a branch name other than debian for maintaining the Debian packaging (as we're using that for what runs on bugs.debian.org). [Or alternatively, coordinate with me and the rest of the team so we can have a flag day and change the branch names.] 3) Coordinate with me before releasing anything > 2.6 that isn't tagged as a release (but feel free to cherry pick patches that you want to carry as Debian specific patches; I'll try to keep backporting useful ones to 2.6 since that's what the debian branch is running from.) Feel free to package the package as native or non-native as you see fit. [I'd prefer to keep the delta between release_2.6 and your packaging as small as possible, but I don't want that to slow you down.] Happy to negotiate on any of the above that you find unworkable. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you really want to test his character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln
