Hi Andreas, back from skiing, sorry for the late reply ;-)
I've not had a close look yet at the salsa repo, but in general this all sounds reasonable. I'm fine with team maintenance in the Debian group, feel free to go ahead. Regarding buffer in general: IMO, it's really time to replace it with something else. It relies on SysV shared memory which no longer is state of the art and thus is quite limited these days. But I no longer use buffer myself, so I've not actively searched for better/more modern alternatives. So until we can recommend one, it probably make sense to keep buffer alive (or rather un-dead ;-) Martin On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 08:15:02AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Martin, > > your package buffer came up as a candidate for the Bug of the Day[1] > today. Thus I had a *short* look on it. I've (quickly!) created a > repository for the package[2] for your comfort (its far from finished). > If you agree the Salvage team might update the packaging in the next > couple of days and fix the bugs in CC. > > We realise that this software is orphaned long ago and somehow in maintenance > mode. Do you think it is OK to maintain the package in Debian team so we can > just upload or do you want to do the final upload yourself? It would be great > if you could raise your opinion in the next couple of days. We could also do > some NMU to delayed=15 which was done in similar cases over last time. > > Kind regards and thank you for maintaining the package over the years > Andreas. > > [1] > https://salsa.debian.org/tille/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks#bug-of-the-day > [2] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/buffer > > -- > https://fam-tille.de
