Package: sponsorship-requests
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Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "archivemount":
* Package name : archivemount
Version : 1-1
Upstream contact : https://lists.sr.ht/~nabijaczleweli/archivemount-ng
* URL : https://sr.ht/~nabijaczleweli/archivemount-ng
* License : 0BSD, LGPL-2+
* Vcs : https://git.sr.ht/~nabijaczleweli/archivemount.deb
Section : misc
The source builds the following binary packages:
archivemount - mounts an archive or compressed file for access as a filesystem
To access further information about this package, please visit the following
URL:
https://mentors.debian.net/package/archivemount/
Alternatively, you can download the package with 'dget' using this command:
dget -x
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/archivemount/archivemount_1-1.dsc
Changes since the last upload:
archivemount (1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* New upstream version 1 (+ changelog & NEWS)
(Closes: #687710, #799563, #832823, #838597, #891749, #974679)
* New debian/
archivemount is currently maintained by cnanakos@, who agreed to cede it to me.
See attached thread for proof.
The original author and maintainer died irl
(obit 2020-11-27: https://trauer.mt.de/traueranzeigen-suche/andr%C3%A9-landwehr)
and no-one decided to take up regency so far,
so I have decided to fill the power vacuum myself as the new maintainer.
This package is based on my updated upstream.
The old upstream and some other downstreams were also notified of this.
Regards,
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наб
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Hi!
Currently, both upstream and downstream archivemount are in a sorry state.
Upstream seems to have ended with the death of the maintainer
(presumed around 2020). The TLS in the site in d/watch is broken
(cf. DDPO https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=cnanakos%40debian.org
ERROR),
and there are no commits by him since around 2020. Issues accumulate.
In Debian, #799563 is a grave issue and has a patch from 2015 that
wasn't taken in, I see three "new version" bugs, and most without followups.
It appears you have little interest in this package, so I'd like to
thank you for keeping it in Debian so far and take it off your hands.
This is a package I use (well, will, once I fix it) for my day-to-day work.
For reference, please see my DDPO
https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=nabijaczlew...@nabijaczleweli.xyz
where I've done this exact thing with urlview
(reassembled all known upstreams, all debian patches, some upstream patches
and fixed all debian bugs, then restructured in-situ to fix more bugs
and modernise/future-proof the code; the entire debian packaging was
rederived from scratch).
Best,
наб
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Hi,
yes of course you can.
Thank you very much for your contribution so far.
Kind regards.
> On 14 Jun 2024, at 21:47, наб <nabijaczlew...@nabijaczleweli.xyz> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Currently, both upstream and downstream archivemount are in a sorry state.
>
> Upstream seems to have ended with the death of the maintainer
> (presumed around 2020). The TLS in the site in d/watch is broken
> (cf. DDPO https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=cnanakos%40debian.org
> ERROR),
> and there are no commits by him since around 2020. Issues accumulate.
>
> In Debian, #799563 is a grave issue and has a patch from 2015 that
> wasn't taken in, I see three "new version" bugs, and most without followups.
> It appears you have little interest in this package, so I'd like to
> thank you for keeping it in Debian so far and take it off your hands.
> This is a package I use (well, will, once I fix it) for my day-to-day work
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