Hi, Looks like the new rsync 3.1.3-1 was uploaded yesterday. Thank you all for the work (and we may have a better rsync in Buster)! -- Regards, Boyuan Yang 在 2018-12-24一的 09:14 +0100，Paul Slootman写道： > Hi Samuel, > (replying above the message as it's all quite relevant but I don't have > anything specific to comment on) > It's true that I have a lot less time nowadays than a couple of years > ago to spend on Debian, unfortunately. This is becoming more and more > obvious. > Feel free to upload a new release with your changes. I'd like to still > be to "official" maintainer, so I would like to review your stuff first. > > Thanks for your work! > > Paul > > On Sun 23 Dec 2018, Samuel Henrique wrote: > > It got to my attention the rsync is a little behind our standards wrt to > > packaging and it looks like the maintainer doesn't have time to deal with > > that at the moment. > > > > Basically what I want to do is to upload the new release (along with some > > packaging fixes), adding new Uploaders while keeping the original > > Maintainer, or maybe moving it to a team while also keeping the original > > maintainer. > > > > The few changes that I already made: > > - Package the last release (which fixes a good amount of bugs and > > security > > issues) > > - Create a git repo on Salsa and use git for packaging [0] > > - Fix d/watch in order to be able to use uscan to download new releases > > > > Things that I would like to have fixed, either for Buster or later: > > - Use debhelper with quilt instead of a complex d/rules that manually > > apply patches > > - Use autopkgtests > > - Bug triage > > > > I understand that as I'm not familiar with the rsync packaging, some of > > the > > things may have been a explicit maintainer choice with a rational behind > > it, and that could be either spotted by a more experienced Debian > > Developer, explained by Paul, or discovered when changing it. > > > > Here are the points which leads me to think the maintainer might need help > > with rsync: > > - Last upload of rsync from maintainer was almost 2 years ago > > - Last upload of maintainer (any package) was in March 2017 > > - There were two NMUs after that > > - There is an open bug (#906895) since January asking for packaging of > > the > > new release, without replies from maintainer[1] > > - A lot of open bugs, 74 as of now. > > > > On a side note, I can see that there was recent (August 2018) email > > activity from Paul, so hopefully he may reply something about this. > > > > Overall, I can see that rsync is not a simple package to deal with, Paul > > having made a great job for many years all by himself, I would like to > > receive help with that so we all can ship a better rsync on Buster :) > > > > The transition freeze is for 12th January of 2019, so we would need to > > upload this new release asap, in order to account for time to fix any RC > > bug that may show up before the new release enters Testing. We can also > > pick which changes we want to ship for Buster and which ones we want to > > upload to experimental because we don't wanna risk introducing bugs that > > close to the freeze. > > > > Thanks, > > > > [0]https://salsa.debian.org/debian/rsync > > [1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906895 > > > > > > -- > > Samuel Henrique <samueloph>
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