Hi, On Sat, 2024-11-16 at 10:29 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi > > I realised your package dvdbackup was moved to Salsa into Debian team > space - great. Since this was not declared inside the Vcs fields yet > I'm hesitating a bit to simply do some Debian team upload and will > rather follow 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: > > - Bugs filed against the package do not have answers from the > maintainer. > - There are QA issues with the package. > > As I said above I found dvdbackup the Salsa repository[2] in the Debian > team space. Currently the package fails to build from source as you can > see in Salsa CI[3] (but also the source uploaded to Debian has this > problem). The Package Salvage team is aware of this problem and will > volunteer to fix it in the 21 day waiting period (in case you might not > fix and upload before). > > Your package was highlighted in the Bug of the Day[4] 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.
Thanks for offering to salvage dvdbackup. Please take it and remove me from the list of maintainers. Thanks! -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
