Re: libdbi maintainership needs help
Hi!
2011/7/12 Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>:
> Cc: Clint Byrum who maintains the package in Ubuntu.
>
> On 07/12/2011 08:01 PM, Angel Abad wrote:
>> Hi Thomas, Im Angel Abad, Im Debian Maintainer and Ubuntu Developer.
>>
>> Im not use libdbi, but I think I can help you to improve the package
>> and get it in better shape.
>
> Basically, we need to close the current bugs, and manage the transition
> in Debian. Also, I disabled the postgress test suite from
> libdbi-drivers, it would be great to re-enable it (but I have no time to
> work on it).
Ok, I'll take a look!
>> I made some probes, and I can help you to run it with dh 7 simplistic
>> (6 lines) debian/rules, switch it to 3.0 (quilt) format, and also make
>> it multi-arch for experimental.
>
> I don't think you can switch to a simplistic debian/rules style. It will
> simply not work. I tried using the 3.0 (quilt) format, using autreconf
> and other tools, it simply didn't work. I finally ended up making a
> debian/build folder, copy all files there, build, and finally install
> from there. Otherwise, building is modifying so many upstream files,
> which either end up in the diff or in the Git. I think it's very goo
> this way already.
>
> As for upstream, I think it would be great if they modified their
> Makefile.am and such so that it would clean things correctly. There's so
> many built files in the original archive ...
I modified it and it works for me, Im preparing git-patch but git
repository is outdated, could you push changes?
Other thing, is necessary make autoreconf? isnt enough updating
config.sub and config.guess?
Regards,
>> If you want my help please ping me, and I can send you debdiffs with my changes.
>>
>> Regards,
>
> Maybe a git patch would be better.
>
> On 09/29/2007 07:11 PM, Mario Iseli wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 02:05:09AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>
>> Hi Thomas!
>>
>>> Bellow is the mail I received from the upstream of libdbi. The current
>>> maintainer, David Parker, is Cc: to this message, so he can reply if he
>>> is still interested in doing the maintenance.
>>>
>>> If David is not willing to continue maintaining it, I can try to take
>>> over the package.
>>
>> He seems to be inactive for a quite long time. His MIA history is long
>> too. I have orhpaned the package due to this and you can pick up the
>> package if you want to maintain it. :)
>>
>> Regards,
>
> Exactly! I pinged him multiple times before I took over the
> maintainer-ship, and had no reply. So I took over, because nobody did,
> and it was one of the reverse-dependency of mod_sql. But I don't really
> use libdbi. So I maintained it basically to help others, and finally, I
> didn't do a good job. Mainly, the issue is the time it took to manage
> issues (others complained about it), and this is what I want to avoid in
> the near future, which is why I wrote this email to -release and -devel.
> I didn't even keep him on Cc: to this email...
>
> Clint: *never* again ask me to hold on an upload, and especially not
> because of an Ubuntu reason. I wont do that again. That's a very bad
> idea, which have bring hate from others.
>
> Now, at this point, if we have enough volunteer, I think we should build
> a project and a mailing list in Alioth, so that we can maintain
> collectively. At least, it should be moved to colab-maint. Feel free to
> pull from my repository:
>
> Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/zigo/libdbi.git
> Vcs-Git: http://git.debian.org/git/users/zigo/libdbi.git
>
> and push that in colab-maint. Note that there's currently 4 branches, to
> track upstream code vs the Debian additions in different releases:
> debian-sid, debian-squeeze, upstream-sid, upstream-squeeze.
>
> Thomas
>
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