Source: multex-base
Version: 1.0-1.2
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian TeX maintainers
<[email protected]>, TSUCHIYA Masatoshi <[email protected]>,
Package Salvaging Team <[email protected]>
Hi Masatoshi,
I'm unsure what might be the best course of action with the package
multex-base. If you consider it worth keeping inside Debian I would be
interested in helping you by following the Package Salvaging procedure
outlined in the Developers Reference[1]. From what I see, the package
seems to meet the criteria for this process.
On the other hand as reported in bug #1116140 it recommends some package
that was removed in 2012 (see bug #672762) and after this removal the
popcon stats are reduced dramatically[2]. So it might mean that this
package is useless inside Debian. If this is the case I'd rather remove
this package.
So please let me know if you consider this package useful in Debian. If
yes I believe the package could be maintained the Debian TeX
maintainers, and I took the liberty to create the Salsa repository
here[3].
This package was highlighted in the Bug of the Day[4] initiative, which
aims to introduce newcomers to manageable tasks and guide them through
the workflow to solve them. The focus of this initiative is on migrating
packages to Salsa, as it's a great way to help newcomers become familiar
with a consistent Git-based workflow.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1]
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging
[2] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=multex-base
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/tex-team/multex-base
[4] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'buildd-unstable'), (50, 'unstable'), (5,
'experimental'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de_DE:de
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
