On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 06:28:50PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Nilesh Patra wrote: > > I wanted to know what the current situation of lintian maintenance > > is. > > Now that policy 4.7.0 is out we (really) should get a release done > soon.
There's an MR https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/498 for this (4.7.0 policy addition change). Do you think you could review/merge this? I also assigned you to one MR I raised which should be not complicated to review if you have the time https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/499 The next one will be MR#500 in lintian! \o/ > The other reason is as you already mentioned … > > > Currently there's an RC bug #1066261 against it > > … this (and #1065431). Thanks for merging that one! > > > and I am unsure as to what should be done (release now, later, > > what?). > > "Soon". I plan to do a release within the next 10 days. Probably won't > have time before Saturday, though. I noticed that dpkg is stalled from testing migration due to lintian's failing tests https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=dpkg This is stopping the entire world to migrate :o Please do consider to make the new release when you get some spare amounts of time. > > I've been reviewing and merging some MRs on the repo for a few > > months, but other than that I have not witnessed much activity. > > Done that, too, for a few MRs, but probably for fewer than you did. > > > So here's the question: How is the maintenance status? > > A bit better than last year from my point of view, but it obviously > could be better. I still only find time for Lintian every other month > or so — nevertheless I seem the only one who dares to do a release. > (Which makes me kinda feel honored, but it actually is a really bad > bus-factor. 😐) True 😓 However thanks for your continued work on lintian! Best, Nilesh
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