Bug#930557: i3-gaps RFS/ITP

[Michael Stapelberg <michael@i3wm.org>]

Personally, I don’t want gaps to be built from src:i3-wm.

It’s enough work to maintain one version of i3.

That said, sur5r is doing all of the Debian work since I retired from Debian,

so it’s ultimately up to him.

I will stress one more time that what we need here is not a one-time sponsorship offer,

but a multi-year commitment for maintaining the i3-gaps package in Debian.

On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 at 08:57, Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> wrote:

 ❦  3 October 2021 08:48 +02, Michael Stapelberg:

> I still think it’d be better to spend time on merging gaps rather than
> packaging gaps,
> but it seems like nobody has the skill set and/or motivation.

This is a very different skillset from packaging.

> Is there someone who would continuously maintain i3-gaps in Debian?
> I wouldn’t want that package to diverge from upstream i3 in terms of which
> version is available in Debian.

Alternatively, src:i3-wm could build both i3-wm and i3-gaps. It adds
extra work on existing maintainers but maybe you and Jakob would be OK
with that? I can propose a patch for that if it helps.
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Best regards,
Michael