Hi, Gregor.
On May 28 2012, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sun, 27 May 2012 18:01:41 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the new version of rtorrent also needs to be uploaded with a
> > new version of libtorrent, which, for SONAME reasons, generates a new binary
> > package and, as I am only a Debian Maintainer, and not a Debian Developer, I
> > can't upload it to Debian.
>
> Hm? libtorrent (both in the archive and in git) has
> Maintainer: Jose Luis Rivas <ghost...@debian.org>
>
> (What also confuses me is that Benoît Knecht has made most of the
> commits and is in the changelog trailer, but he's not in Uploaders:.)
Yes, that's a messy situation. :) Let me get this mess out of the way:
Both libtorrent and rtorrent used to have few maintainers, AFAIR. Then, it
was in a bad maintenance situation and I decided to join forces, as I was
using it a lot.
For some time, we had a team of 3 people (unera, ghostbar and me). I am the
only one that is not a DD (well, perhaps I *really* should get my act
together and apply for the DD status---but the paperwork that used to happen
some time ago discouraged me).
Anyway, unera did some uploads after I joined the team and everything was
going smoothly. He seemed to have lost interest and ghostbar was finishing
his studies, and I stepped up as the main maintainer, seeing as both of them
were busy.
Then, upstream started neglecting the programs and bugs started
accumulating, and I started to lose interest to the point of even removing
myself from the Maintainer/Uploader fields.
After some time, Benoît Knecht did a very good job of triaging some bugs, as
he was interested in getting rtorrent in shape *and* informed me that
upstream had migrated to github (from a self-hosted, centralized SVN repo)
for development, the project (upstream) started getting rid of the dust and
is now active again.
With all this happening, Benoît had some packaging done already, which I
reviewed and, then, I asked the alioth admins to allow Benoît access to the
collab-maint repo, where he pushed his changes.
So, that's the situation so far.
I also re-gained interest in the projects as I have revived a few NAS boxes
(some which have only 64MB of RAM) and upstream is alive.
BTW, one can only guess how healthy it was to have a project moved from SVN
to git in the case of upstream :), with more forwarding patches, with more
visibility, with a BTS that doesn't collect as much spam as the previous
trac instance etc.
> > Would you be willing to sponsor these new uploads, so that we can fix this
> > problem (and some others, as a side effect)?
>
> Yup, if ghostbar (cc'd) is busy,
Not sure how he and ghostbar are at the moment.
> and as soon as I understand the
> situation better :), I'm happy tp help.
Well, I hope that my short summary of the history serves to let you better
understand what's happening. :)
Thanks,
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