Bug#708132: bcache-tools ITP

[David Mohr <david@mcbf.net>]

Hi Robie,

thanks for checking in! It's good to know there is interest.

I think I have the package in pretty good shape, see 
https://github.com/squisher/bcache-tools/tree/debian-mentors . Bernd 
(bzed) was the sponsor for when Gabriel uploaded to mentors. That's not 
visible anymore because the package was once removed due to inactivity. 
He is still willing to sponsor the package, but has been pretty busy as 
of lately.

My current hung-up is that I'm fighting with a smart card setup on sid 
to do the signing since the reader in my lenovo turned out to be flaky. 
So the version on debian-mentors is lacking some improvements which you 
can see on github.

So my current todo is:
1. get gpg to work with my smartcard
2. get a collab-maint account
3. upload new version to mentors

Lintian is pretty happy, and it's not a particularly complicated 
package, so I think once I get 1. out of the way, the rest should move 
more quickly.

I'm open to co-maintaining, if anyone wants to jump in and help.

~David

P.S. I'll forward this to bzed so that he can chime in if need be.

On 2014-05-30 09:57, Robie Basak wrote:
> Gabriel, David,
>
> I'd like to help with getting this package into Debian. What is this
> waiting on right now, please, and how can I help speed things up?
>
> I'd also like to see bcache-tools in Ubuntu, and I see that Gabriel is
> already maintaining a PPA on Launchpad. I am not a DD (but can poke
> several), but I can sponsor packages into Ubuntu. I can upload to 
> Ubuntu
> ahead of a Debian upload if things are held up at the Debian end, but
> I'd prefer to see the package going in via Debian.
>
> I see a recent upload to mentors by David. Is this currently a 
> candidate
> for upload, or there more work to be done? Do you need a sponsor, or do
> you have someone looking it already?
>
> On a separate (not-really-Debian) note, it'd be great to see somebody
> maintaining bcache-tools stable releases in Ubuntu for bugfixes and so
> on. Gabriel (or anyone else), if you're interested, I'd be happy to
> sponsor these or otherwise coordinate against your PPA with you, rather
> than step on your toes.
>
> Robie