Hi, On 11/11/2016 02:48 PM, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > I notice you're planning to adopt syslinux. We were planning to adopt this > package under the Debian Live/Debian CD teams as we use this for the > official CD image builds.
Oh, I didn't know you were also planning to adopt it - the package had been orphaned for quite a while now, and I just assumed there were no other takers. I'd be very happy to co-maintain the package though - I just didn't mention that in the ITA mail because I thought that if someone else was interested in the package, they'd have already adopted it by that time. > This is not a trivial package to maintain Yes, I'm aware of that. :) > and updates really *need* to be > coordinated with the CD team, especially when coming up to release time. Yes - the reason I became interested in maintaining the package is because of previous changes leading to previous use cases not working anymore. And I do think the package is in need of some love. > I notice also that you're currently a DM, and I'll be happy to sponsor > uploads of this package and also perform testing of the Debian Live > toolchain with those updates before the new package is introduced into the > archives. Great, thanks. My plans for the package were to update to a newer upstream version (there's a -pre1 from the beginning of this year of 6.04 IIRC, but I wanted to go through upstream git to see if a git snapshot might not be better suited), and improve the packaging were needed. (Though the last QA upload already did quite a bit there.) I then wanted to ask for sponsorship for an upload to experimental first and let it stew there for a while before going on to sid. I hope you agree with that basic plan. And as I said above: if you're interested in co-maintaining the package, it welcome that as well. Regards, Christian
