Bug#888580: I'm considering it ...
Il 12/03/2018 12:22, Helmut Grohne ha scritto:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 01:14:14PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
>> I'd like to drop maintenance of doxygen. I think I hijacked that package in 2004
>> to be able to build the libstdc++ docs from the GCC sources. Now that the
>> package needs a concise understanding about the javascript issues (sources,
>> different upstream versions), I'd like to stay off that maintenance task. Helmut
>> Grohne has been a substantial help with the javascript issues, but decided to
>> leave co-maintainership. Basically I'm asking for a new maintainer with the
>> understanding of the javascript issues, the implications for Debian policy, and
>> the willingness to adopt the package to build documentation of Debian packages.
>
> I'd like to take the opportunity to thank Matthias for his time as sole
> and primary Doxygen maintainer for such a long time. It certainly isn't
> a thankful package as every new upstream release tends to make some
> other package FTBFS. Dealing with the bug reports can be a tiresome task
> indeed and Matthias has certainly endured that for a long time. The
> balance of how close to stay with upstream defaults is difficult to
> strike. Communicating issues with upstream likely needs more time as
> well.
>
> I'd also like to thank Paolo Greppi, who stepped up and triaged a number
> of bugs in 2013. Paolo, are you still interested in Doxygen? Now would
> be a good time to say so.
>
> In case someone wants to adopt Doxygen, I'm happy to share my knowledge
> of the package.
>
> Helmut
Hi Helmut, thanks for the mail.
It looks like this one is 1 or 2 orders of magnitude more complex than any package I
currently maintain !
Also ATM I'm dm not dd so I'd need a sponsor for the uploads and/or (later) be granted
upload permissions.
But nonetheless I started to look at it.
I would prefer to maintain it with gbp, and I have created a git repo for that:
https://salsa.debian.org/paolog-guest/doxygen/tree/debian/sid
(this only has the current versions for wheezy, jessie, stretch, buster and sid plus
some minor changes on the debian/sid branch)
I wonder what would be the correct location on salsa, probably not inside
paolog-guest ?
Also it would be nice if the original uploaders were to sign the tags ?
In conclusion, I could adopt it, unless of course someone more experienced than me steps
in.
It would be of great help to get from you both an informal overview of TODOs, priorities,
_really_ critical bugs etc.
Paolo
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