Hi Gabriel, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote: > > Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this > > package if you will have enough time and attention to work on it. > > Although I'm new to Debian maintenance (my first and only work is the > packaging of pragha (https://mentors.debian.net/package/pragha)), I > would like to take ownership of this package.
Everyone needs to start somewhere. Welcome on board and thanks for joining our effort. :-) > >Please also notice that there seems new upstream development at > >https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/, so one of the tasks for the > >new maintainer is to update the package to the most recent upstream > >release. > > I cloned the package repository and I understood how syncing with > upstream was designed (very clever, imo). Nice! Didn't look that deep into the package. > So, I synced it and I began working on the removal of the patches > that are no longer required, or that do not apply cleanly. Cool! > Once that is solved, I'll have a package and lots of bugs on Alioth to > mark as fixed. Oh, the bug tracker on Alioth actually has been used for that project? Indeed: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?atid=413095&group_id=100114&func=browse But it's only visible for logged in users. That's unexpected and a bad thing. But nothing we will change anymore. (See below.) > Arguably, this will be the hardest part, since there are a lot of > open bugs and since there has been a lot of improvements upstream. Yes, but IMHO it's definitely a good thing to synchronise these bug reports (well, those which are still valid) to Github or the Debian Bug Tracking system — especially since Alioth is going away towards end of this year. See https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth and especially these mailing list postings: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/06/msg00002.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/08/msg00008.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/09/msg00004.html Not sure if it might be a good idea to make a dump or copy of all these bug reports as I don't expect them to be preserved when Alioth is decommissioned. Luckily at least a few of the bug reports in there are already labeled as being related to a bug report in the Debian Bug Tracking System. > Is it fine if I keep doing this? IMHO definitely. Please tell me if not being a member of the bash-completion project on Alioth hinders you in doing that work. (That should still be possible.) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
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