Bug#805268: Adoption of syslinux
Hi,
On 11/11/2016 02:48 PM, Iain R. Learmonth wrote:
> I notice you're planning to adopt syslinux. We were planning to adopt this
> package under the Debian Live/Debian CD teams as we use this for the
> official CD image builds.
Oh, I didn't know you were also planning to adopt it - the package
had been orphaned for quite a while now, and I just assumed there
were no other takers.
I'd be very happy to co-maintain the package though - I just didn't
mention that in the ITA mail because I thought that if someone else
was interested in the package, they'd have already adopted it by
that time.
> This is not a trivial package to maintain
Yes, I'm aware of that. :)
> and updates really *need* to be
> coordinated with the CD team, especially when coming up to release time.
Yes - the reason I became interested in maintaining the package
is because of previous changes leading to previous use cases not
working anymore. And I do think the package is in need of some
love.
> I notice also that you're currently a DM, and I'll be happy to sponsor
> uploads of this package and also perform testing of the Debian Live
> toolchain with those updates before the new package is introduced into the
> archives.
Great, thanks.
My plans for the package were to update to a newer upstream
version (there's a -pre1 from the beginning of this year of
6.04 IIRC, but I wanted to go through upstream git to see if
a git snapshot might not be better suited), and improve the
packaging were needed. (Though the last QA upload already did
quite a bit there.) I then wanted to ask for sponsorship for
an upload to experimental first and let it stew there for a
while before going on to sid.
I hope you agree with that basic plan. And as I said above:
if you're interested in co-maintaining the package, it
welcome that as well.
Regards,
Christian
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