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Re: foo2zjs packaging in git ?



Hi Didier,

Thanks for letting us know, unfortunately I don't have enough time to help 
maintaining this package anymore, so please remove me as a maintainer in the 
ext upload.
Thanks again for doing the work.

Cheers,
Steffen

> Hi dear foo2zjs maintainers,
> 
> as you certainly know, since its 20110210dfsg-1 version, foo2zjs has been
> put under the "Debian Printing Team" umbrella, so I took closer look at
> it.
> 
> First, are you willing to keep maintaining foo2zjs ? AFAIK, Luca did the
> last uploads but wasn't very motivated in stayin maintainer. Michael had
> his last commit to foo2zjs packaging in 2009, and Steffen back in 2007.
> My intention is not at all to kick people out, but rather to have the
> package reflect reality.
> 
> Second, as I couldn't get used to the (IMHO weird) svn repository layout, I
> took the initiative to creat a git clone of it, that makes use of the usual
> git-buildpackage techniques (upstream code in "upstream" branch, "pristine-
> tar" branch to recreate the original tarballs, "upstream" gets merged to
> "master" where packaging is done).
> 
> This git repository currently lies in my ~/public_git on the writable
> alioth (vaks). It should be clone'able by running the following command:
> 
> 	git clone git+ssh://${login}@git.debian.org/~odyx/public_git/foo2zjs.git
> 
> I tried my best to place the upstream merges at the logical moments, to
> date and attribute the tags correctly. Unfortunately, some parts of the
> history have not been sequential and some tags couldn't be placed at all.
> 
> What do you think ? Shall we transition the foo2zjs packaging to Git ?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your answers,
> 
> Cheers,

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