Given the (lack of) maintenance on the package, I am pretty confident we don't 
have anyone in Debian that really knows it (I am willing to be pleasantly 
surprised).

The gtts upload I did migrated to Testing last night, so I'll leave the rest 
of it to you.

Thanks,

Scott K

On Monday, August 7, 2023 9:27:05 AM EDT Emmanuel Arias wrote:
> Hello Scott,
> 
> I don't use it, but seems an interested project. I can work on it, but
> it would be great if you have a maintainer that already know the project.
> 
> Cheers,
> Emmanuel
> 
> On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 05:23:53PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > The gtts package is, at least nominally, maintained by the Debian Python
> > Team, but has no human uploader.  As a practical matter, I think someone
> > should either adopt it (add themselves to uploaders) or we should
> > formally orphan the package so we aren't pretending.
> > 
> > It has two rdepends:
> > 
> > Reverse-Depends
> > ===============
> > * dialect [amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips64el mipsel ppc64el]
> > * mnemosyne
> > 
> > I personally track mnemosyne, even though it's not team maintained,
> > because i have an interest in the package.  I noticed it was going to be
> > removed from Testing because of a FTBFS bug in gtts, so I fixed gtts by
> > updating it to the current upstream release.  Looking at the upload
> > history, it's been this way for awhile.
> > 
> > One consequence of it not being actually maintained is that we released
> > bookworm with a non-functional gtts package (see #1030290).  If anyone had
> > been paying attention to the package, they would have noticed that should
> > have been an RC bug (it is now) and it would have either been fixed or
> > removed.
> > 
> > The package is now in not awful shape in Unstable (and barring surprises
> > Testing later today), but it could still use some work.  The major
> > immediate task for a potential maintainer would be working with the
> > Stable Release Managers to get bookworm fixed.
> > 
> > If you're interested in the package and wiling to watch over it, please
> > let me know via email.  If I don't hear back, I'll assume no one is
> > interested and orphan it in a week or two.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Scott K

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