Hi, (fully quoting so that Yann Amar gets the context of my email)
наб (2024-10-25): > Hi; > > The salvage team largely operates by QAing packages highlighted by BOTD > http://blends.debian.net/botd/botd.html > which means ones with non-wontfix bugs & not uploaded by maintainer for 5 > years > & Standards-Version < 4 & no/invalid VCS. > > This has a high hit-rate, and I've noticed that many of these packages' > maintainers only maintain one package. Thus, I'm evaluating > the ~1000 single-package maintainers' packages under the same lens > (the hit-rate is much lower and my query is not good). > > Yesterday I got to Yann Amar <quid...@poivron.org>, > who maintains src:bilibop. > > tracker.d.o shows a history of very regular uploads, > both big and small, from 2013-09-21 up to 0.6.3 @ 2021-02-09. > > https://bugs.debian.org/src:bilibop lists, chronologically: > #983396 2021-02 bilibop: [INTL:pt_BR] Brazilian Portuguese debconf > templates translation > #995691 2021-10 [INTL:sv] Swedish strings for bilibop debconf > #1002939 2022-01 bilibop: [INTL:it] Italian translation of debconf messages > #1025592 2022-12 bilibop-rules: suggests transitional policykit-1 package > #1059552 2023-12 bilibop: isolation-machine autopkgtest (lockfs) fails on > bookworm and newer > > The last commit in the VCS > https://un.poivron.org/~quidame/git/bilibop.git/ > from 2021-03-08 is d/changelog for 0.6.4 with #983396 applied. > This matches the last-modified date on > https://un.poivron.org/~quidame/git/ > and is the latest out of all repositories there. > > The homepage/wiki all has last-updated dates from juin 2013. > I don't see any other posts under this name on lists.d.o. > contact/ says quidame on OFTC, and that user doesn't seem to be online. > I haven't linked this user to any other on-line medium. > > I'd characterise this behaviour as highly uncharacteristic and worrying > (I may just be primed after > https://github.com/cybernoid/archivemount/issues/29 > but early 2021 is not much different to excess deaths from late 2020 :/). > > Has anyone seen Yann Amar? I have tried out of band methods and I've just received sign of life :) I'll now put Yann Amar in touch with the person who's currently responsible for sponsoring uploads of src:bilibop. Cheers, -- intrigeri
