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Bug#1012289: Bug #1012289: Following up on Lintian



On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 02:57:18PM +0100, Jakub Ružička wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:54:14 +0000 Simon Quigley <simon@tsimonq2.net> wrote:
> > In most recent Ubuntu cycles, I've taken on the "archive bootstrapping" 
> > responsibility of adding the new Ubuntu codename to Lintian. I remember 
> > having some deeper conversations with the former Lintian maintainer 
> > regarding further contributions and maintenance, but I also recall some 
> > politics, and quite frankly, *I don't care*. Regardless, Lintian is 
> > something I look at every cycle.
> 
> Same.
> 
> 
> > I'm writing today to express my concern about the current state of 
> > Lintian maintenance. I already understand that there is an RFH filed 
> > against Lintian, but that has not received any sort of followup since 
> > 2022. The most recent Lintian upload is from March 2023, and as of the 
> > time of writing, there are 26 open merge requests[1].
> 
> Currently, there are quite a few merged patches ready in VCS as well,
> including the one I'm interested in (added support for loong64).
> 
> Just being able to actually release new version of lintian would be nice.

Hello,
I volunteer to help with Lintian.
I have worked on lintian a long time ago,

I should be able to make new releases at least.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here. 

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