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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