On Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 03:59:15PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 07:00:01PM +0100, наб wrote: > > I'm interested in salvaging your package console-cyrillic, > Thank you, but honestly I am not sure this will be a good use for your time. Well, I've done it already, so either way there's https://salsa.debian.org/salvage-team/console-cyrillic/-/commits/debian/?ref_type=46d4ae0fa39400ad404787561d2322bf7da53b0f
> The package console-cyrillic requires no work. Disagree, there's outstanding non-wontfix bugs that affect the functionality of the package. I'd definitely agree that after fixing those, it will probably require no work (or a similar amount of work after another decade) because the package is largely exhausted of functionality. > The Linux console font > font format has not changed and is it not expected to change. Yes, the > package hasn't been uploaded by me since 2016, but this is because this > was not necessary. I disagree with this assessment. Any of the bugs currently outstanding would've taken all of 3 minutes or sending a trivial followup to fix (this is what they took me). > Yes, the last three uploads are NMU, but you can see > from the changelog that these uploads did not require big source > changes. One upload required no source change at all, another upload was > only to change the source format to 3.0, and another upload did just a > trivial change in the control fields of the package. Agree that the NMU criterion is fulfilled on paper only, and not in any meaningful way. > These days the only useful part (in my opinion) of console-cyrillic are > the fonts. Sure. The programs are nice though (clearly, since people try to use them). > The rest of the package is mostly of historical interest. Definitely true. > If > some tool in the package bothers the people too much, I'd rather remove > this tool from the package rather than waste my time to fix it. I don't think any of them bother anyone, they just expect them to work, and that was somewhere between a 1- and 4-line diff away. > Ok, now I have to ask: how serious are you about the package > console-cyrillic? I mean you did some work in the BTS and I suppose you > are preparing an upload of the package. But is this just a temporary > interest or you intend to feel responsible for the package for the > future 10 years? I'm the normal amount of serious, so if I adopt/salvage it, I expect to field any bug reports until I'm physically incapable. My life expectancy right now exceeds 2035, so the latter. > In the first case, please feel free to do another NMU. > > In the second case, feel free to add your name to mine as a maintainer > of the package. I'll do this, then, thanks :) > In the second case you may want to consider this: do you realy want this > package to be under version control? obviously, always, all of the time > Consider that most likely you will > be the only person working on the package and the source changes will be > none or trivial. This may be a generational difference, because that sounds like an even better reason to have it under git. > In the first case, I think I'd rather keep the package not under version > control. Best, наб
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