Hello Emilio, On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 11:12, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <po...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 09/05/2023 09:51, Andrea Righi wrote: > > On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 09:30:54AM +0200, Héctor Orón Martínez wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> virtme already exists in Debian, what would be the benefit of virtme-ng > >> over virtme? > >> > >> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/virtme > >> > >> Regards > > > > The original virtme project is not maintained anymore > > (https://github.com/amluto/virtme), so we decided to fork the project > > and continue the development / bug fixing in virtme-ng > > (https://github.com/arighi/virtme-ng). > > If the original project is no longer maintained, I'd suggest to keep the same > name and move it into a github group, then invite the original author if he > ever > wants to come back. That way there's no need to add new packages with > transitional packages in every distribution. That's e.g. what happened with > terminator. Not sure if it's too late to do that in this specific case.
There has been some communication off debian-devel with the upstream maintainer and that's indeed part of the plan. Ricardo has volunteered to swap the upstream on virtme to be virtme-ng, avoiding transitional packages. Since the package is not part of bookworm (it is sid only ATM), there is no issue. -- Héctor Orón -.. . -... .. .- -. -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-.
