Bug#1079842: Should debbugs be removed from unstable?

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 10:56:05AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2024 at 04:08:58PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Sep 2024, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 09:34:08AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > > > Control: severity -1 normal
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2024, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> > > > > In case the package should be kept in unstable, please evaluate each of the
> > > > > RC-bugs listed above.
> > > > 
> > > > The existing RC bugs are correct, and keeping this package in unstable
> > > > is useful because it tracks issues which are specific to the debbugs
> > > > tool as opposed to bugs.debian.org.
> > > 
> > > I would favor this package to be removed from unstable. Then I could issue an ITP
> > > for it and maintain it as a non-native package with the debbugs team as upstream.
> > 
> > If you're up to maintain the packaging, I'd prefer to have you part of
> > the debbugs team rather than you have to go through that rigamarole.
> > 
> > Let me know what you'd like to do.
> 
> Sorry, I drafted an answer and then I realized I might have misunderstood you.
> Are you offering me to join the debbugs team ?
> 
> Whether or not I join the debbugs team, I would like maintaining the package as
> non native, and I need a clear mandate that allows me to upload it whenever
> I want.

In any case, please decide either to commit to maintain this package or to let me
do it before it is too late for the freeze.

Bug #477182 is 16 years old now.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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