On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 11:06:03AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 07:04:49PM -0800, James Montgomery wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > I saw your RFA for stunnel4 and I am interested in adopting the package. > > I've previously helped with other Debian packages and would like to step up > > to > > maintainership with this one. > > That's great :) Just bear in mind that stunnel packaging is a bit more > complex than some of the other Debian packages out there. > > For instance, there is one item that I have been putting off for years: > renaming the package itself (both binary and source) to "stunnel". > The "stunnel4" name is an unfortunate legacy of the now distant past, > when stunnel migrated from version 3 to version 4; we have been at > version 5 for many years now, and I have put off renaming the package > mainly for reasons of backwards incompatibility, but it is high time now. > Actually I think I will start that process in the coming day or two; > I say "start that process" because it will involve at least one, possibly > two trips through the NEW queue. [snip] > Other than that, could you please hold off making any changes to > the repository for a couple of days? I think I will really start > the package rename process Real Soon Now(tm). > > But apart from that, it's great that you want to help, and actually > taking on a not-trivial package is a good way to learn how to handle > the not-trivial parts of Debian packaging :) I will be glad to help > with that.
So, uh, yeah, those were a long "couple of days", sorry about that - a couple of things, mostly outside Debian, interfered. But now the package rename should be complete: both unstable and testing now have the new "stunnel" source package that builds the "stunnel" binary package and also the "stunnel4" compatibility one. The compatibility package must be kept at least until the next Debian release so that `apt upgrade` will bring in "stunnel". Apologies for holding you back; as far as I am concerned, you have a green light now for adopting stunnel if I have not completely killed your desire to do so :/ G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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