Package: fabric Version: 2.5.0-0.2 Severity: important Hi Python Modules People (and Fabric maintainer)!
It seems that the Fabric package is not very well maintained anymore. The most recent major release (2.x, ie. 2.5.0) was uploaded as a NMU in dec 2019, and never acknowledged. The most recent upload from the maintainer is from 2017. There's now been a new upstream release (2.6.0) and it seems it's going to miss bullseye by quite a mark, because it's too late for the freeze. But it's not too late to rescue fabric! Upstream activity seems to have returned, and it would be nice to upload newer versions to Debian, and take care of that (one) bug report. I have taken up packaging of invoke, under the python team umbrella, and i'd be happy to do so with fabric as well, keeping the current maintainer (asb, in cc) as uploader of course. This procedure is done, in good faith, under the "Package Salvaging" provisions of the developer reference, available here: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging It is considered that the following indicators fullfill section 5.12.1: * two NMUs in a row * bug without an answer * new upstream release In 21 days, if there's no (negative) response to this bug report, I will consider it is okay to start working on salvaging this package and will probably upload a 2.6.0 to experimental (since we'll be in a freeze then) into the DELAYED/7 queue. I hope everything is in order and finds you well! :) a. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.8 APT prefers stable-debug APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-0.bpo.5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages fabric depends on: ii libjs-sphinxdoc 1.8.4-1 ii python3 3.7.3-1 ii python3-fabric 2.5.0-0.2 ii python3-pkg-resources 40.8.0-1 fabric recommends no packages. fabric suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
