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Bug#1023083: ITP: libquazip1-qt5 -- Qt/C++ wrapper over minizip - Version 1 (Qt5)



On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 03:12:18AM +0000, Ben Westover wrote:
> On 10/29/22 1:20 PM, Filippo Rusconi wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 03:40:13PM +0000, Ben Westover wrote:
> >> On 9/13/22 8:28 AM, Filippo Rusconi wrote:
> >>>> I'd support any attempt to move the current libquazip[1] away
> >>>> from Debian Med team where it is just by chance since it was a
> >>>> dependency of some of our packages.  It does not make any sense to
> >>>> maintain it inside the Debian Med team and I would love to hand it
> >>>> over.  All maintainers except me do not respond to pings any more
> >>>> and thus can be droped from the list of Uploaders.
> >>>
> >>> I understand that, let's take it away from Debian Med and put it in Debian at
> >>> large. Ben, if you would do the update, then I'd go over it and upload it. That
> >>> would be very good.

If you want to take it out of debian-med team, the right way is to * ask * the
med-team to transfer it somewhere else. What you are trying to do here is considered
as a hostile takeover.

> >> As stated above, the existing QuaZip *0.9* package (libquazip) and my
> >> new QuaZip *1.3* package (libquazip1-qt6) are unrelated. While they are
> >> both QuaZip packages, they are separate since QuaZip 0.x and 1.x are
> >> supposed to coexist, much like Qt5 and Qt6. The orphaning of libquazip
> >> is unrelated to my new libquazip1-qt6 being uploaded. My new package is
> >> outside of any team.
> >> The correct procedure here is to orphan libquazip, and anyone who is
> >> interested can adopt it.

Why should the package be orphaned?

> >> Again, my new package libquazip1-qt6 is not
> >> related to the existing libquazip package or the Med Team.

There are already some changes committed to git for version 1.1 in the med team
package. If we happened to miss seeing this ITP, we might have ended up stepping
on your toes.

-- 
Best,
Nilesh

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