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Bug#847681: packaging repository and sid diverging? Various fixes needed.



On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 11:13 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:23:49AM +0100, Ferenc Wágner wrote:
> > > > Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> writes:
> > 
> > > Could either of you comment on this bug?  I saw your names in the
> > > nfs-utils changelog.  I've seen various problems with NFS under jessie
> > > and I was hoping to help test if for stretch.
> > 
> > Hi Daniel,
> > 
> > I'm not involved in the maintenance of nfs-utils, just reported a
> > trivial bug that Salvatore kindly fixed in a commit.
> 
> Same here. Beeing subscribed to the kernel maintainers mailinglist I
> noticed Ferenc report and didn't want that it get lost and commited to
> the git repository. Only afterwards noticed some discrepancy between
> the current version in git, and the one in the archive beeing -9.2. On
> one side I saw that Ben imported up to -9 the history in git, but the
> NMU's were never imported.
> 
> I can very well guess that any help in the maintenance would be
> welcome.

I was the one who brought nfs-utils into the kernel team, expecting
that it would benefit from coordination with kernel maintainers, but
aside from my contributions in 2009-2011 that hasn't really happened.
None of the currently listed uploaders has uploaded in the last 2
years, and the only changes made by regular kernel maintainers have
been my update to debian/watch and Salvatore's recent addition of
Ferenc's patch.

I think it may make more sense to hand over to a new team, rather than
keeping it with the kernel team.  Daniel apparently wants to be on that
team.  Who else?

I notice that the git repository doesn't reflect the package contents
properly due to the current upstream version being incorrectly
imported.  The tag names also don't match the current standard format. 
Here's a repository with those two problems fixed and the recent NMUs
added:

https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?p=nfs-utils.git;a=summary

(I haven't pushed these changes to Alioth since this is rewriting
history.  Also, this doesn't include the oldest branches and tags which
are entirely detached from the current history.)

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.

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