Hello Birger, On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 12:07PM +0100, Birger Schacht wrote: >> Firstly, I want to ensure that Nicolas is adequately credited for having >> done the majority of the packaging work (so far as I can tell); at the >> time of writing, where master is at 9303b617, I don't think this is >> true. >> >> Secondly, I want to ensure that the Maintainer and Uploaders fields >> adequately reflect Debian's social conventions about who gets final say >> over the contents of the package. Right now only Birger is listed. As >> has already been pointed out this could be interpreted as a kind of >> package hijack, which we don't want. > Sorry for the confusion, i'll try to be more considerate of existing > work next time! No problem. > Future uploads by me should then be NMUs, i guess? No, they would be normal maintainer uploads (confusing terminology, sorry). >> The last e-mail we have from Nicolas, saying that they are waiting for >> sponsorship, indicates that they still want to maintain this package in >> Debian. On the other hand, Birger has worked on the package recently, >> and I want to unblock him. So I think this is a suitable compromise. >> >> Birger, if this sounds good to you, please apply my diff, and then run >> `dch -r` again to refresh the timestamp in d/changelog. > done and pushed to 08230095 Thanks. I neglected to do a d/copyright check yesterday and have found some problems with d/copyright that need to be fixed before I can upload: - the Source: field is wrong - the protocols/ dir needs accounting for (look in the files there) -- Sean Whitton
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