opam package maintenance

[Kate Deplaix <kit-ty-kate@outlook.com>]

Hi,

Sorry to bother you all. As one of the opam maintainer, i would like to get more insights on how the debian package for opam is maintained.

The package doesn't seem to have a permanent maintainer and my attempt to contact mehdi failed.

The package currently is out-of-date in several ways:

• stable has a 3 years out-of-date version: 2.1.2
• testing is fine with 2.1.6 (although i would suggest 2.2.0)
• sid is still on 2.1.6 despite 2.2.0 being out

I'm personally ready to help (I've already personally helped upgrade Alpine, Homebrew, MacPorts, Void-Linux, Archlinux, Nixpkgs), but the process to do that in Debian seems convoluted compared to the above mentioned distributions.

How can i help? (I'm not a Debian user anymore)
I was able to get an account on Salsa after battling with the gatekeeper but I'm not sure what's the next step. Untar the archive and update the control and rules files?

Cheers,
Kate