Bug#1039051: Bug#1125294: gforth: Should gforth be removed from unstable?
Hi Bernd,
Am Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 10:26:49AM +0100 schrieb Bernd Paysan:
> > I'm fine to bring those advantages also to the Debian package and I
> > offer to work together with you on this goal. The original Debian
> > Maintainer requested adoption anyway so you are free to maintain the
> > package inside Debian. If you create a login on Alioth I'd happily
> > give you permissions on the repository there.
>
> I'm happy to jump in, and have registered a login on salsa, under the user
> name forthy42, which is now pending manual review.
Great. I've granted you maintainer permissions. Just let me know if
you might observe some issues.
> > If you consider this a good idea I would be really happy. If you
> > think users might be served better with your snapshots and prefer if
> > someone else might spent some time into the official Debian package
> > we can see whether someone might step up.
>
> As said above, I'm happy to maintain the package inside Debian, fix the
> problems in 0.7.x, and provide a convenient way to install Gforth-1.0 betas.
Sounds great. Please fill in your ID as Maintainer in debian/control
since Peter wanted to step back. You are absolutely free to shape the
packaging according to your needs. If you consider certain Git commits
more helpful than the latest tagged release I'll happily support you
with commits to adapt the debian/watch file accordinly. I have quite
some experience with packaging and can easily support you with things
like this.
I'm looking very happy in the future of this package now since we
have upstream on board.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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