On 12/12/16 21:05, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 11:13 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:23:49AM +0100, Ferenc Wágner wrote: >>>>> Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro> writes: >>> >>>> Could either of you comment on this bug? I saw your names in the >>>> nfs-utils changelog. I've seen various problems with NFS under jessie >>>> and I was hoping to help test if for stretch. >>> >>> Hi Daniel, >>> >>> I'm not involved in the maintenance of nfs-utils, just reported a >>> trivial bug that Salvatore kindly fixed in a commit. >> >> Same here. Beeing subscribed to the kernel maintainers mailinglist I >> noticed Ferenc report and didn't want that it get lost and commited to >> the git repository. Only afterwards noticed some discrepancy between >> the current version in git, and the one in the archive beeing -9.2. On >> one side I saw that Ben imported up to -9 the history in git, but the >> NMU's were never imported. >> >> I can very well guess that any help in the maintenance would be >> welcome. > > I was the one who brought nfs-utils into the kernel team, expecting > that it would benefit from coordination with kernel maintainers, but > aside from my contributions in 2009-2011 that hasn't really happened. > None of the currently listed uploaders has uploaded in the last 2 > years, and the only changes made by regular kernel maintainers have > been my update to debian/watch and Salvatore's recent addition of > Ferenc's patch. > > I think it may make more sense to hand over to a new team, rather than > keeping it with the kernel team. Daniel apparently wants to be on that > team. Who else? > > I notice that the git repository doesn't reflect the package contents > properly due to the current upstream version being incorrectly > imported. The tag names also don't match the current standard format. > Here's a repository with those two problems fixed and the recent NMUs > added: > > https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?p=nfs-utils.git;a=summary > > (I haven't pushed these changes to Alioth since this is rewriting > history. Also, this doesn't include the oldest branches and tags which > are entirely detached from the current history.) >
Hi Ben, Thanks for providing this feedback I've done the following: - forked the upstream repository - created a debian/sid branch - copied debian/* from jessie into that branch and committed - copied debian/* from sid into that branch and committed - used "git format-patch" and "git am" to copy in changes from your repo - merged upstream's 1.3.4 tag into debian/sid - updated patches (many could be dropped) - other small updates (home page, VCS fields) - pushed my repo into a new location, collab-maint/nfs-utils Please have a look at my repository structure and tell me if you feel it is useful for this project. If not, my changes could be extracted easily enough with git format-patch and applied into your repository with git am and then we could start the collab-maint/nfs-utils repository over again. Are you happy for this to live in collab-maint now? Maybe that will encourage more collaborators. I've added a README.source inviting contributions too. Regards, Daniel
