Re: Taking over an abandoned package
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 10:43 PM Tong Sun wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The golang-vbom-util has been abandoned -- from
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=896854
> Arnaud said, "This library is not maintained. I wont package it."
>
> However I do need to package it as it is a dependency of
> github.com/google/go-containerregistry &
> github.com/GoogleContainerTools/container-diff.
>
> Is it appropriate for me to rename the
> https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/golang-vbom-util to
> something, create a brand new dep14 based one, while keeping all Mr.
> Arnaud Rebillout's previous valuable commits?
>
> I.e. keep the following three from
> https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/golang-vbom-util/-/commits/master
>
> * 8bf6b8b Close ITP (1 year, 10 months ago) <Arnaud Rebillout>
> * 012f7f5 Exclude the command, as we only want to ship the library (1
> year, 10 months ago) <Arnaud Rebillout>
> * f28ef09 Initial packaging files (1 year, 10 months ago) <Arnaud Rebillout>
>
> via `git apply` so all Mr. Arnaud Rebillout's previous valuable
> commits will still be in the new repo.
>
> The reason I ask is that, this is the only/easiest way I know.
If no objection, I'll be starting this weekend. thx.
OK, Mr. Arnaud Rebillout?
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