Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages (Was: Bug#492503: marked as done (ITA: feh -- imlib2 based image viewer))
On 26/08/08 at 09:32 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>
>> Your message dated Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:47:03 +0000
>> with message-id <E1KXsKV-0005ZX-7o@ries.debian.org>
>> and subject line Bug#492503: fixed in feh 1.3.4.dfsg.1-2
>> has caused the Debian Bug report #492503,
>> regarding ITA: feh -- imlib2 based image viewer
>> to be marked as done.
>
> At DebConf I learned about the existence of the nice wnpp-alert script.
> It is a real shame that this script is somehow hidden below the "noise"
> of many other nice scripts. So I easily detected a set of packages I
> would really like to keep in good shape because my day to day work depends
> from them.
>
> My first target was the image viewer feh. As you see I just took over
> this package but my experience in several teams has shown that it is
> much better to find a team which uses a common repository for packaging
> issues. Unfortunately I can not easily find an appropriate team for
> this package. In the end I could imagine a Debian Imaging DIS
> (Debian Integrated Solution - formerly known as CDD, but renamed since
> DebConf). But it would kind of overkill to start a new project for
> this - I feel the need for such an effort, but I can not do it myself.
> And finally it would not help for my next target gcal - I also would
> fail to find a reasonable team.
>
> So my question is: Do you think it makes sense to create a VCS on Alioth
> where we could build a pool for those packages that are orphaned or just
> taken over and do not find a better home. I would feel much better if
> my packaging stuff would not reside only on my local disk but in a
> commonly accessible VCS and the location to this VCS is clearly mentioned
> in the VCS fields of the control file.
Hi Andreas,
This idea cames up on a regular basis. I think that the consensus is
that it's better to simply use the Debian archive as VCS. When you
change/fix something in an orphaned package, just upload ;)
Making the process of doing QA uploads more complex, by asking
care-takers to look at a VCS first, is IMHO not a good thing.
Of course, when a package has been adopted, and there's no obvious team
to maintain it, the best solution is probably to use collab-maint to
maintain it. You didn't know about collab-maint? Maybe we need to
communicate a bit more about this.
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