On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 08:38:58PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 19 May 2024, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Also debbugs is a special case: > > The debbugs Debian package (as opposed to the debbugs software) have never > > been > > really maintained. I am actually one of the very few users of this package > > and I tried several times to get the maintainers to do a new upload but they > > were clearly not interested. > > It's more that I'm prioritizing spending my (very) limited Debian time > on keeping bugs.debian.org and debbugs itself working (and [very slowly] > developing a new version of Debbugs with a more modern design in the > hopes that others will contribute.) > > > Ideally debbugs should be made non-native so that some else could > > maintain the Debian package. > > I'm happy to review patches that get the 2.6 branch of debbugs in shape > where it can be released into Debian again if someone wants to take that > effort.
But precisely, one should not need to wait for a new 'upstream release' to fix RC bugs that prevent the package to be part of a stable release. Making it non native would allow that without requiring more of your time. > I've just assumed that anyone using that package was running > unstable or running debbugs out of git. Perforce, since the package has not been in stable or testing for years. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
