Bug#968237: ITP: auctex-12 -- AUCTeX version 12, LaTeX environment for Emacs

[David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>]

Itaï BEN YAACOV <candeb@free.fr> writes:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Itaï BEN YAACOV <candeb@free.fr>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
> * Package name    : auctex-12
>   Version         : 12.2
>   Upstream Author : GNU Project
> * URL             : https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/
> * License         : GPL v3
>   Description     : AUCTeX version 12, LaTeX environment for Emacs
>
> Hello,
>
> This is not truly an ITP but a request for guidance.
> auctex v11.91 already exists in Debian, and has not been updated since
> 2018 despite bug reports requesting that.  Specifically, the preview-latex
> feature no longer works due to changes in ghostscript, which is solved in
> upstream.
>
> The relevant bug #896844 was filed in Apr 2018, the maintainer said "I'll
> work on it" and nothing ever happened since, depite numerous follow-ups to
> the bug.  I tried to contact him directly in early 2020, getting no useful
> reply, except that he considers that he is still maintaining the package.
>
> I am not a Debian developper, but am able to package (in fact I have packaged
> auctex v12 for personal use).

In principle you can apply the procedure described in

   https://wiki.debian.org/PackageSalvaging
   https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging

Note that the maintainer can fairly easily stop the process.