On 4/21/20 3:09 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: >> After some xorg driver packages were removed from the archive in #955603 [1] >> that we still need for Debian Ports, I was wondering whether it's okay when >> I take over maintainership and upload the packages to unstable as we need >> them. >> >> I understand that the timing is a bit unfortunate, but I wasn't aware of the >> removal bug otherwise, I would have asked for some of the drivers to stay. >> >> But I can just maintain the driver packages myself if that's ok? >> > If they're needed by debian-ports, then may I suggest you maintain them > there?
Maintaining them in Debian Ports is completely manual and therefore very cumbersome. The packages cannot be built automatically unless they are part of the main archive. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
