On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 at 15:03:11 +0200, Gert Wollny wrote: > Hi Adrian, (Adrian won't have seen this unless he's subscribed to the bug or package, because bug submitters don't normally get copies of bug mail in the Debian BTS; adding him to Cc.)
> as the maintainer of amide[1], a package that depends on libgnomecanvas > I was also already thinking about adopting this package and libart- > lgpl. In other words I'd happily join to co-maintain these two > packages. Do you (either or both of you) also intend to adopt the language bindings src:libgnomecanvasmm2.6 (in theory currently maintained by Deng Xiyue, most recent maintainer upload 2009)? Everything I said below "My concern about keeping packages like gconf" in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895246#10 applies equally here. If, having considered that, you still want to adopt these libraries, I don't think anyone will stop you. Both libgnomecanvas and libgnomecanvasmm are listed as "archived" in GNOME git, so they have no upstream maintainer. If you adopt them, you will be the closest thing there is to their upstream maintainer; it might be a good idea to start a new upstream project (forked from the archived GNOME source code) that other distributions can share, particularly if you plan to modify things that are annoying to do via a patch series, like the build system. Because these packages mention "gnome" in their names, it would be great if you could reduce confusion by modifying their Description to clarify that they are no longer considered to be part of (current) GNOME. libart-lgpl packaging has been successfully converted from svn to git and is available from https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/libart-lgpl (a gnome-team Owner or a Salsa sysadmin might be able to move that into a different namespace for you, leaving a redirect behind). libgnomecanvas and libgnomecanvasmm2.6 seem to have failed their automatic conversion from svn (there are repositories in /git/pkg-gnome on Alioth but they are empty); I think I still have the right incantations in my shell history on alioth to do a fallback conversion with git-svn, if that would be helpful to you. smcv
