Source: libimage-base-bundle-perl Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: Package Salvaging Team <team+salv...@tracker.debian.org>, debian-p...@lists.debian.org
Dear Maintainer,
I'm interested in salvaging your package libimage-base-bundle-perl,
in accordance with the Package Salvaging procedure outlined in the
Developers' Reference[1].
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.
- Upstream has released several versions, but despite there being
a bug entry asking for it, it has not been packaged.
This package is best-fit for the Perl Group, which is in CC:.
Individual members of the Perl Group have done the majority of the NMUs.
The main issue with this package is its multi-upstream-tarball layout.
Well, it was before source version 3.0 (quilt). This d/watch:
version=4
opts=versionmangle=s/.*/2/ https://lfs.nabijaczleweli.xyz (empty).tar.gz
group
opts=component=Image-Base https://metacpan.org/release/Image-Base
.*/Image-Base-v?@ANY_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@$ group
opts=component=Image-Xpm https://metacpan.org/release/Image-Xpm
.*/Image-Xpm-v?@ANY_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@$ group
opts=component=Image-Xbm https://metacpan.org/release/Image-Xbm
.*/Image-Xbm-v?@ANY_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@$ group
correctly watches the three packages and yields version
2+~1.17+~1.13+~1.10-1 currently, indicating the versions in order.
This works with the normal gbp workflow,
and matches the post-unpack layout basically verbatim (sans .tar.gz).
Also, quilt patches work.
I've rejuvenated the package based on this, forwarded still-relevant patches,
and fixed all outstanding bugs in my import at
https://salsa.debian.org/salvage-team/libimage-base-bundle-perl
a DD (probably tille@ ‒ he's R/W in salvage-team too? idk how the ACLs are)
would need to move this to [2], yielding:
$ debdiff libimage-base-bundle-perl_1.0.7-3.5_all.deb
libimage-base-bundle-perl_2+~1.17+~1.13+~1.10-1_all.deb
File lists identical (after any substitutions)
Control files: lines which differ (wdiff format)
------------------------------------------------
[-Requred-]
{+Required+} by Image::Info to parse xpm and xbm files.
Homepage: [-http://search.cpan.org/~summer/-]
{+https://metacpan.org/author/KRYDE+}
Installed-Size: [-81-] {+103+}
Provides: [-libimage-base-perl, libimage-xbm-perl,-] {+libimage-base-perl (=
1.17), libimage-xbm-perl (= 1.10),+} libimage-xpm-perl {+(= 1.13)+}
Version: [-1.0.7-3.5-] {+2+~1.17+~1.13+~1.10-1+}
I would rather point to something in the people.debian.org space
for the empty tarball in d/watch
(H4sICEhkL2cCA2EudGFyAO3BAQ0AAADCoPdPbQ43oAAAAAAAAAAAAIA3A5reHScAKAAA,
created with tar -cf empty.tar -T /dev/null; gzip -9 empty.tar;
it's 10k of 0 bytes post-unpack)
rather than a random URL in mine,
much like we do with the fake watches under
https://people.debian.org/~eriberto/
but idk if there's a canonical location for this.
Best,
наб
[1]
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging
[2]
https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libimage-base-bundle-perl
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