Hello,
To be honest I haven't touched this package in years and have
essentially abandoned its maintenance, and I am also completely ignorant
of any new processes in Debian package maintenance.
I'm also the sole upstream developer, but as I'm not using the software
myself any more that has been essentially abandoned too. I assume that
most people have moved on to other networks like Mastodon rather than
pump.io so I can't imagine many people using Pumpa any more?
I'm OK with any changes you propose to the packaging, but I will not
continue maintaining it unfortunately. If someone else is interested to
pick that up, I'm perfectly fine with this.
Best regards,
Mats
On 2025-09-16 12:25, Andreas Tille wrote:
Source: pumpa
Version: 0.9.3-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: Package Salvaging Team <[email protected]>
Hi Mats,
for your convenience, I've committed a working watch file for pumpa to
the Salvage Team repository on Salsa. You can find it here:
https://salsa.debian.org/salvage-team/pumpa/-/blob/master/debian/watch?ref_type=heads
Pumpa was highlighted in the Bug of the Day initiative[1], which
encourages newcomers to work on manageable tasks and learn the Debian
workflow step by step. A major focus of this initiative is migrating
packages to Salsa, since that helps contributors get used to a
consistent Git-based process.
I should mention that I'm not in a position to help much with the open
bugs reported against the Debian package, as these seem to be upstream
issues, and upstream development appears to have stalled.
That said, I believe there is still value in keeping the Debian
packaging maintained on salsa.debian.org, since we can modernise the
packaging independently of upstream. This approach has worked well in a
number of other cases.
If you agree, I'd be glad to help move the temporary repository I
created in the Salvage Team namespace to a more suitable location. That
could be the Debian namespace (where any DD can commit) or your personal
namespace, where contributions could come in via MRs-whichever you
prefer.
Please let me know your thoughts. I hope the improved watch file is a
useful enhancement, and I'd be happy to contribute further changes to
modernise the packaging if maintaining pumpa on Salsa sounds good to
you.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1]
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging
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