Bug#935390: RFS: vnstat/2.4-1 [NMU] [ITA]
Hi Sven,
Teemu (vnstat dev) was kind enough to write me a lengthy and helpful
commentary today on the situation relative vnstat. He pointed out
various inconsistencies in the way I have presented the package (and
also confusion from me sending two initial two emails, Teemu mentioned
that policy says a new RFS should only come after the 21 days -- my
apologies for being too quick on that without clear grasp of all the
Debian policies).
So I have removed the package from mentors and will work on gaining a
fuller understanding of the correct way to package vnstat for Debian
over the coming weeks. With the quite detailed analysis given me by
Teemu, relative patches, possible closing of bugs (if a version v2.x
moves into the Debian repositories) and tips about correct ways to make
the package, there is much for me to learn!
In any case, thank you again for your response and attention to my
(unintended) slightly incorrect approach relative the intention of
getting a newer vnstat into Debian repos.
-Rob
On 08/22/2019 03:10 AM, Rob Savoury wrote:
> Hi Sven,
>
> Thanks for the reply. Spent the whole day (and evening!) doing my best
> to go through all the necessary steps to learn how to create a reliable
> first Debian package, but guess I'm not totally surprised it is not
> quite correct somehow!
>
> In any case, along with the RFS another email sent was an "ITS: vnstat"
> [1] due this package qualifying for salvaging. So my intent is actually
> to move towards being maintainer of vnstat (starting out with sponsored
> maintainership, of course). That was actually Teemu (the developer's)
> suggestive prompt to me in an email yesterday (after I alerted him to a
> minor cosmetic bug in vnstat and he alerted me to the situation of the
> vnstat package in Debian apparently having a "MIA" maintainer).
>
> The very problem appears to be a one year lack of any sign of activity
> from Christian relative this package, so that's why the ITS and RFS from
> me today. My understanding is that a three week window is given for the
> maintainer to respond to an ITS so we will see if Christian returns into
> some communication about vnstat during that time. Until then, I'll keep
> brushing up on my new learning with the whole complexity of the Debian
> packaging process!
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=935391
>
>
> On 08/22/2019 02:45 AM, Sven Hoexter wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 01:26:35AM -0700, Rob Savoury wrote:
>>
>> Hey Rob,
>>
>>> Changes since the last upload:
>>>
>>> * New upstream version 2.4
>>> .
>>> * debian/patches/
>>> + drop patch applied upstream (timeout for restart)
>>> + modify pidfile and systemd patches for new source files
>>> * d/control: bump to std version 4.4.0 and add libsqlite3-dev BD (vnstat 2.x)
>>
>> While I value the work, this is not properly packaged as an NMU.
>> I uploaded the last NMU by Teemu because it made perfectly sense to upload
>> those changes which were already implemented by Christian Göttsche. But Christian
>> is still the maintainer of the package as far as I can tell.
>>
>> So would be nice to have an ACK from him if such kind of informal team uploads
>> are ok. And beside of that NMUs which implement major version changes are mostly
>> an exception. I would prefer either some team upload or some notice by Christian
>> how he intents to handle this package.
>>
>> Sven
>>
>>
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