Re: sup-mail package - from Debian Ruby Attic
Hi Iain,
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 5:02 AM Iain Parris <ipv2.lst@parris.org> wrote:
> Wow! That was extremely fast. Thank you so much Utkarsh - very much
> appreciated. :-)
Hehe, you're welcome! \o/
> Excerpts from Utkarsh Gupta's message of 2020-07-20 04:28:33 +0530:
> Thank you (x5)! That's wonderful to hear. There are two new upstream
> maintainers (I am one), and we've both previously been using Sup for
> many years before we volunteered to pick up the maintenance, so we're
> planning to maintain upstream for the long term.
That's awesome!
> I would be very happy to help in anyway that I can with the maintenance
> of sup-mail in Debian too, following your lead. For example, would you
> like me to fork in Salsa, and take a look at the failing pipeline, to
> see if we can get to a green build in Debian?
Most certainly!
I have granted you push access to the git repository, which means you
can essentially push commits to ruby-team/sup-mail repository.
(I believe that even if someone messes up somewhere, things can always
be reverted! So just push directly and I'll keep reviewing those changes! \o/)
So the Debian maintenance is a bit different from upstream development.
Here, we have 3 branches: master, upstream, and pristine-tar.
Described in https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/Packaging/#Git_workflow.
I can help you quickly understand the basic workflow of packaging.
The best place would be #debian-ruby at OFTC (on IRC).
Please free to join there and ping me, my nick is utkarsh2102.
> And one small initial request: thank you for adding the new build
> dependencies on ruby-optimist and ruby-unicode-display-width. Please
> could you also remove the old build dependency on ruby-trollop?
> (ruby-optimist replaced ruby-trollop.)
Eeks, I should've done that in the first place.
Anyway, since you want to contribute to Debian, would you like to
do that yourself? :)
(now that you have commit access to sup-mail, just clone the repository,
do the changes, commit and push! \o/)
Let me know if you face any problems!?
> > Also, the most important part where you can really help is when I forward
> > some patches/issues upstream, maybe you can take a look at them and
> > provide a fix so it's more easier to maintain the package on the Debian
> > side! :)
>
> Yes definitely, I'm of course very happy to do this. I've subscribed
> myself to this mailing list, so you can reach me here. Or the upstream
> mailing list is <supmua@googlegroups.com>.
That's lovely, great!
> Or upstream pull requests and/or issues on GitHub are always very
> welcome: https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/>.
Nice! I'll forward dropping-the-git patch. So hopefully you'll see a PR soon! :)
> Huge thank you again Utkarsh - I wasn't expecting such a friendly
> response. But I can see for myself, you are friendly here, just like you
> said. :-)
You're very welcome! Everyone is ;)
Best,
Utkarsh
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