Control: tags -1 pending Thanks Hi Camm.
as I said previously I consider you perfectly active. Since you did not answered my mail below I assume you might be to busy. I hope you are welcoming the NMU I did intentionally to the largest delay period possible of 15 days. You can find all changes in Git at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xmpi Please let me know if I should cancel this NMU. Kind regards Andreas. Am Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 08:09:07AM +0100 schrieb Andreas Tille: > Hi Camm, > > I came across your QA page while looking at packages not yet on Salsa > and was struck by the range. Gcl, axiom and maxima are non-trivial > packages requiring real domain knowledge - thank you for maintaining > these in Debian. That's exactly the kind of work that deserves a > resilient maintenance workflow. I actually got curious about the xmpi > package which seems to be on the other end of complexity level and I was > wondering whether we need this in Debian any more. > > My pitch is simple: Salsa + tag2upload has made Git-based maintenance > genuinely ergonomic. You keep full control, but the packaging history > becomes legible, CI catches regressions, and the bar for occasional > contributions (upstream authors, other DDs, grad students) drops to an > MR rather than a debdiff by email. > > I'm curious whether you have specific objections - tooling friction, > distrust of team workflows, or just not enough hours? The answer > matters, because it informs how Debian should be thinking about this > transition more broadly. > > Happy to help bootstrap a repo or pipeline if you want to experiment > with one package. > > Kind regards > Andreas. > > -- > https://fam-tille.de -- https://fam-tille.de
