Hi again
On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 08:43:08AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Pierre,
>
> sorry for violating netiquette but we have an open culture in Debian Med
> team and private discussion should only happen for really private
> things. So I'm quoting you in public on the Debian Med mailing list and
> would be really happy if you would answer there.
>
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:30:42PM +0200, Pierre Gruet wrote:
> > Hi Andreas,
> >
> > I have seen you did an upload on the package sumaclust today; I am
> > writing to let you know that I got in touch with its upstream yesterday
> > with a patch proposal, and the developer has released a new version
> > (1.0.35) fixing the Serious bug #952093 that you closed with the upload
> > of 1.0.34-2.
>
> Actually that bug was pretty easy by setting a simple -I option in
> Makefile. I admit I wonder why that has build before at all. Seems
> upstream has found a different fix since my patch did not created any
> conflict when importing and building the new upstream version.
>
> > If you want, I would be happy to package it in Debian Med Team (but I
> > would need a sponsor). If you prefer doing it yourself, please just do.
>
> I admit for *every* package in the Debian Med team I love to be only
> sponsor instead of doing most of the work. So every reader is kindly
> invited to pick packages, fix bugs, write tests - whatever. I'm by
> no means proud upon having my name inside the majority of packages as
> Uploader. So in this case: Yes, you are kindly invited to join me
> in maintaining sumaclust - and may be also sumatra and sumalibs (just
> uploaded to new).
>
> For the actual 1.0.35 upload I simply used the very quick solution and
> fired up routine-update[1] and just uploaded the result which took me
> less than a minute work. So its not that I really want to do this but
> that *currently* I considered it way more straightforward than asking
> you to do it. If you would volunteer to work on this I'd be really
> happy if you
>
> 1. Would create a salsa.d.o login
> 2. Join the Debian Med team
I noticed you are at least at step 2. :-)
(Just accepted your membership.)
> 3. Read Debian Med team policy[2] in case you might not be
> comfortable with usual workflows in team similar to
> 4. Add yourself as Uploader to all packages you would
> volunteer to package
> 5. Review my work! (Well, I have some routine but it might
> be wrong. May be there is a better fix in sumaclust than
> tweaking the Makefile in a quilt patch.)
> 6. Review sumalibs packaging - we could definitely use also
> a dynamic library since we should avoid code duplication
> in sumaclust and sumatra
> 7. Enjoy beeing member of the Debian Med team
I'd like to add another item here:
8. Write autopkgtests for the said packages
> Thanks again for your attempt to help
Welcome in the team
Andreas.
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