Bug#671296: sstp-client: changing back from ITP to RFP

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>]

Yes, that's a good idea

On 01/09/21 at 22:12 +0000, Eivind Næss wrote:
> Hrm,
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> I filed this issue almost 10 years ago, and there been next to zero interests on debian's side. People have consistently been pinging me to update the packages out of a launchpad.net repository.
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> The network-manager-sstp is a part of the Gnome project, and I recently got a Gnome membership. Would you suggest, I start by emailing some of the maintainers of the other plugins to see if there is willingness to sponsor (or even maintain) this package?
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> - Eivind
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> From: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 11:59:34 AM
> To: Eivind Naess <eivnaes@yahoo.com>
> Cc: 671296@bugs.debian.org <671296@bugs.debian.org>; Jonathan Rubenstein <jrubcop@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Bug#671296: sstp-client: changing back from ITP to RFP
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 01/09/21 at 16:38 +0000, Eivind Naess wrote:
> >  Hi Jonathan,
> >
> > I've since packaged sstp-client and network-manager-sstp and the respective debian source is located on launchpad:
> >
> > bzr branch lp:sstp-client-packagebzr branch lp:network-manager-sstp-package
> > I would love for debian to pick up the packages such that all the debian based distros like Ubuntu, etc would get this package as a part of their distribution (or at least an extra).
> > There should be very little work to make it a debian package, and the latest update to these branches fixed all the LINT warnings and is using the latest debian-helper/compat.
> >
> > What do you think, Lucas? Jonathan?
> 
> There are two paths here:
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> (A) find someone willing to maintain the package in Debian, preferably a
> Debian Developer or a Debian Maintainer
> 
> (B) agree to maintain the package yourself in Debian. Then you need to
> find someone (a sponsor) who will review the package and upload it to
> Debian on your behalf. This can happen inside a team (if there's a team
> where those packages are a good fit), or outside, using the
> http://mentors.debian.net/ service. The full process is described on
> https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/ .
> 
> (I ran into this bug during a routine QA task so I don't have any
> particular interest in SSTP, and I have very limited time for Debian
> currently, so I'm not a good candidate to be that sponsor)
> 
> Lucas