Hi Andreas, thanks for your effort in bringing the laserboy package up to date. Yes, feel free to take over the laserboy package.
I did not use it in years, and in general have very little time for debian package maintenance at the moment. With kind regards Richard Am Mittwoch, dem 06.08.2025 um 08:20 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille: > Source: laserboy > Version: 2016.03.15-1.3 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: Nicolas Schodet <[email protected]>, Richard Ulrich > <[email protected]>, Debian Multimedia Maintainers > <[email protected]>, [email protected], > Package Salvaging Team <[email protected]> > > Hi, > > I'm interested in salvaging the package laserboy, in accordance with > the > Package Salvaging procedure outlined in the Developers Reference[1]. > This 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 (more than one NMU in a row). > - Bugs filed against the package do not have answers from the > maintainer. > - Upstream has released several versions > - There are QA issues with the package. > > I believe the package would be a great addition to the Debian > Multimedia > team, and I took the liberty to create the Salsa repository here[2]. > If > you choose not to accept the ITS, I'd be more than happy to help you > move it to another location, such as debian/, or wherever you prefer. > My > goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to join the team. I'd > also be delighted to assist in adding you as a team member if you > could > share your Salsa login. > > This package was highlighted in the Bug of the Day[3] 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 help newcomers become > familiar > with a consistent Git-based workflow. > > Kind regards > Andreas. > > [1] > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging > [2] https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/laserboy > [3] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 13.0 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'buildd-unstable'), (50, > 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental'), (1, 'buildd-experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 6.12.27-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) > Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=de_DE:de > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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