Re: poco library is "basically orphaned", newer version available, Mumble has poco dependency

[Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle@coredump.us>]

Thanks for responding, Andreas.

Additioanl notes below.

On 1/7/24 03:10, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Am Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 09:32:59PM -0500 schrieb Chris Knadle:
>
> Here's what I would wish to do "in a perfect world":
>
> 1. I'd like to do an NMU upload to orphan the package. This is required to
> get the package on the "orphaned" list to notify developers that a new
> maintainer is needed.
>
> 2. I'd like to do an NMU upload of an updated version of the library,
> preferably with some help from a DD that has done library releases to insure
> the proper release processes are done. This seems like how things would be
> done in the Ubuntu world where packages don't have official maintainers.
> Updating the library would allow the packages depending on it to migrate,
> and would remove one of the 16 reverse-dependencies of libpcre3-dev.
> This sounds all sensible.  Make sure you do so in its Git repository[1].
> If you need help you might actually specify in more detail what help is
> needed - possibly also asking on debian-mentors@lists.debian.org.
>
> Kind regards
>      Andreas.

Yes, I've already cloned the Git repo locally and assuming I have 
permissions to commit there with my Salsa login then I'll push the 
changes to the Poco Git repo. If I can't push the changes then I'll 
clone the repo on Salsa and repoint the VCS location. The Git history 
will be preserved one way or another.

Getting help from Debian Mentors sounds like a good suggestion.

Thank you very much

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Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle@coredump.us
Debian Developer