Hi all,
Just wanting to clarify the process in my hope to assist with the Debian
package of Adminer. TBH I have never formerly been involved with Debian
packaging but I think that I have a reasonable idea of what's involved.
At least the basics... Besides I've got you lovely people here to help
me when I get stuck! :)
Anyway, the version of Adminer in Jessie is really old. I note that
there is a newer version uploaded but it is stuck in Sid, I assume due
to policy bug in the source package. There are additional bugs too that
will probably need to be tidied up...
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=adminer
For the record I'm a Debian daily driver plus I am heavily involved with
TurnKey Linux[1] (a Debian derivative). TurnKey uses Adminer in many
appliances hence part of my interest in seeing a newer version in Debian...
[1] https://www.turnkeylinux.org/
I have just emailed the current maintainer (directly) seeking input from
him around what I could do to help. I'm assuming that I should probably
just wait and see how that goes before I take any further steps,
although I have some specific questions:
-I have literally just sent the email to him; but how long is "long
enough" to wait on a response? Days? Weeks? Months?
-is there some "debian" space where I should also post (other than here)
to find out what is going on? If so where?
-the packages isn't up for adoption nor is there any request for help
but perhaps I've missed something somewhere? Is there a really easy way
to double check the status of a package in that regard that I may have
missed?
-is there something/anything that I could/should do while I wait?
-if I don't get a response, what then?
-if I get a response:
-should we just discuss things directly between ourselves, or should
we be working in some open/public/Debian-specific space somewhere? Is
there some policy or guidelines on this or do we just decide ourselves?
-what is the usual/best way to collaborate on things like this?
Would you use github? Or is there something different/better? Or again
do we just work it out ourselves?
Open to any input around this stuff, including links to docs that I
might have missed etc...
Regards,
Jeremy Davis
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