Re: Has anyone seen Yann Amar (src:bilibop)?
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 <quidame@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
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