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Re: Maintaining cl-launch in Debian Common Lisp Team?



Hello,

On Fri 31 Oct 2025 at 07:14am +01, Andreas Tille wrote:

> Hi Francois-Rene,
>
> I stumbled upon this bug report and would like to clarify the situation
> of cl-launch.  Since you maintain cl-asdf inside Debian Common Lisp Team
> I conclude you are a member of this team and you might be able to
> maintain cl-launch inside this team as well.  Is there any reason to
> have it outside the team?
>
> The package is featuring a long list of Uploaders.  Are all these
> Uploaders active and is Julien Danjou the only inactive maintainer (as
> per this bug report)?  Christoph and Milan signed uploads until 10 years
> ago.  While there is a new upstream version there was no maintainer
> upload since then.
>
> If the Debian Common Lisp Team agrees I would recommend to migrate the
> packaging to this team and also updating the Uploaders list.  Please
> also package the latest upstream version.
>
> BTW, there was an NMU 4.1.4-1.1
>   No source change upload to rebuild on buildd with .buildinfo files
> which is not imported into the packaging Git.  I would recommend to do
> this to make sure the debian/changelog will list all uploads in future.
>
> This package was highlighted in the Bug of the Day[1] initiative, which
> aims to introduce newcomers to manageable tasks and guide them through
> the workflow to solve them. The focus of this initiative is on migrating
> packages to Salsa, as it's a great way to help newcomers become familiar
> with a consistent Git-based workflow.

I think it is okay to move the package's git repo to the
common-lisp-team namespace, but in the absence of a Common Lisp
programmer who would like to actively maintain it, the Maintainer field
should be set to Debian QA Group.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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