Hi all, For the last couple of years, I’ve been the most active member of the Debian Common Lisp Team. However, it’s becoming increasingly clear that my involvement is now going to be significantly reduced (lack of time, change of focus). So this email is essentially a call for volunteers. I will not disappear entirely, so I can certainly act as an adviser during a transition period. In particular, I would explain (or document) a few practices that I’ve been following so far (regarding version numbering and autopkgtests of CL libraries in particular). The packages maintained by the team are generally in good shape (with a few exceptions). The most immediate task would be to update SBCL. I’ve given a try to packaging version 2.2.2, but got across a problem I’ve reported upstream (left unanswered so far): https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl/+bug/1964511 Maybe this problem can be worked around by putting the call to sb- ext:set-sbcl-source-location in /etc/sbclrc, instead of trying to modify the Lisp image at build time (though the latter is obviously better). Another important task would be to move the remaining reverse build- dependencies of pgloader under the team’s umbrella. Those are mostly the CL packages whose maintainer is Dimitri Fontaine (who is no longer active), see: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=dim%40tapoueh.org Other tasks include: dealing with the regular updates of CL libraries; updating slime; asking for the removal of a few obsolete or dead packages; finally getting rid of dh-lisp (which does nothing useful). Cheers, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ https://www.debian.org
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