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Re: sd, libprophet-perl, and Bug#627174



>>>>> intrigeri  <intrigeri@debian.org> writes:
>>>>> Ivan Shmakov wrote (22 Sep 2012 17:31:55 GMT) :

	[Cc: to Christine Spang.]

 >> I'm interested in maintaining the sd package (as well as
 >> libprophet-perl), and wonder if someone could sponsor my uploads?

 > This is good news!  I'd be very happy to see sd back in Debian!

 > However, last time I heard about sd, Christine basically said that sd
 > needed a new *upstream* maintainer — so if no such upstream
 > maintainer appeared since then, I'm not sure it would be a good idea
 > to re-introduce the package in Debian without taking over its
 > maintenance upstream too.

 > But perhaps you're willing to try and play the upstream maintainer
 > role too for a while?

	I'm unsure that I'd be able to give these packages all the
	attention they deserve, but at the very least, I guess that I'd
	be able to keep them free of (major) bugs for a while.
	(Although I have a few ideas regarding the packages, I'm unsure
	if I'd be able to implement them myself.)  That said, I see that
	Ioan Rogers has recently became active on the project [2]?

	Also, I've checked libprophet-perl, and now see that 0.750
	(which, AIUI, Closes: #576628, #593134, #681814 = #613833) was
	merged into the Debian packaging repository [3].  I wonder if
	there were any specific reasons not to upload the updated
	package back then (some 14 months ago)?

	I hope to prepare and test the updated packages by the weekend.
	Should I succeed, I'll request maintainership on the prophet and
	sd packages.

	TIA.

[2] http://gitorious.org/prophet
[3] git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/prophet

PS.  BTW, is this due to a specific reason, or a convention, that the
	upstream Git change history is “flattened” within the Debian
	packaging repository?

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