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Bug#959420: O: free42-nologo -- Free42 is a re-implementation of the HP-42S calculator



Dear Stephen,

Le jeudi 09 juillet 2020 à 20:07 +0200, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :
> On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 22:34:20 +0200 Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org> wrote:
> > Control: retitle -1 ITA: free42-nologo -- Free42 is a re-implementation of the HP-42S calculator
> > Control: owner -1 !
> > 
> > On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 10:58:56AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> > > The current maintainer of free42-nologo, Christian Stalp <
> > > chris@chrishell.de
> > > >,
> > > is apparently not active anymore.  Therefore, I orphan this package now.
> > 
> > I’m working with Christian to get an updated version of the package
> > ready. I’ll change this to an ITA on my behalf for now, to signal that
> > I am taking care of the package (whether with Christian, or directly,
> > or co-maintaining).
> 
> Just to let you know that, if needed, I’m willing to help with the package.

I went ahead and I created a repository that contains an almost-ready
package for 2.5.19, using a standard git-buildpackage workflow. See:
https://salsa.debian.org/sebastien/free42-nologo

Please let me know if you accept to have the next upload based on this
work.

If you welcome my work, then we need to decide:

- what to put in the Maintainer/Uploaders field. My suggestion is to
create a team alias on tracker.debian.org that can function as a cheap
mailing list (of the form team+pkg-free42@tracker.debian.org, where
"pkg-free42" can be replaced by whatever we want), and use that address
in the Maintainer field. Personal adresses would go to the Uploaders
field.

- where to put the git repository. I suggest the "debian" group on
salsa.debian.org, or alternatively a dedicated group on salsa

Then a few packaging decisions remain to be taken:

- what to do with the old "menu" entry (and the corresponding generated
32x32 pixmap). I suggest to drop it, since it is essentially obsolete.

- now that we have two versions of the program (binary vs decimal), I
think it would make sense to use the alternatives mechanism to provide
a generic /usr/bin/free42 that will point either to free42dec or
free42bin (the former being the default, since it is more precise and
more faithful to the original HP 42S)

- providing a .desktop file (pointing to the generic free42; or
alternatively, two desktop files, one for each version)

- providing aliases for the manpage so that it works with free42dec as
well (and possibly with the free42 generic alternative)

Please let me know your thoughts.

Best,

-- 
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