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Re: [DRE-maint] Bug#960229: RFP: pdfbeads -- utility to take scanned page images and convert them to a single PDF file



On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:45:52PM +0000, Georg Faerber wrote:
> (Adding the Ruby team to the loop.)
> 
> Hi team, Rogério,
> 
> On 20-05-11 15:22:04, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > On May 10 2020, Georg Faerber wrote:
> > > On 20-05-10 17:24:12, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > > > Since I don't know much ruby, I guess that it would be best to
> > > > have people from the Ruby team maintain and/or package it. I am
> > > > even willing to co-maintain it, if necessary, but, again, my
> > > > knowledge of Ruby is minimal.
> > > 
> > > If you're interested in learning (on your own) and improving your
> > > Ruby packaging skills, I'm happy to give you any help necessary.
> > 
> > Thanks for the kind message. I gave it a shot with gem2deb and I
> > produced a (very) preliminary package. It is at:
> > 
> > https://github.com/rbrito/pkg-pdfbeads
> > 
> > The changelog, in particular, is very cluttered and should be cleaned,
> > among other things. Regarding ruby-specific packaging stuff, I would
> > love to get comments and/or corrections.
> > 
> > The package providing jbig2 should, really, be a Recommends instead of
> > a Suggests, but since it is not in Debian yet, I left it as is for the
> > time being.
> > 
> > > Let me know in case you're interested.
> > 
> > While I'm not sure if I am able to maintain this package (let's say
> > that some use asks for a new feature), I won't know how to proceed.
> > 
> > Assistance and opinions is highly appreciated.
> 
> I would like to mentor Rogério and help them "learning by doing". To
> make this easier, an account on salsa.d.o with (limited) access to the
> team and/or the repo makes sense, IMHO.
> 
> Thoughts?

Rogério is a long time Debian contributor so I don't see a problem even with
giving him full access to the salsa group.

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