Hi Chris,
Am Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 09:32:59PM -0500 schrieb Chris Knadle:
> I'm in kind of a tight spot and hope to get a "clearance to proceed" or
> reasonable guidance on how to handle this situation.
>
> All recent versions of Mumble (>= 1.4) build-depend on poco c++ libraries
> which are RC buggy in Debian due to being outdated (depends on pcre3 which
> is slated to be removed -- pcre2 is the newer replacement). Poco is
> "basically orphaned" -- the last communicating developer has stated in
> Bug#999989 that he removed himself from the package uploaders in the Git
> repo, and that all the other listed maintainers have not been heard from in
> "a long time" (it's apparently been years) -- but the package has not yet
> been orphaned via an upload.
>
> There seem to be a total of 5 packages reverse-depending on poco libraries:
> clickhouse, clamfs, gm-assistant, gpsshogi, mumble -- all of these are
> blocked from migrating to Testing because of poco.
>
> Here's what I would wish to do "in a perfect world":
>
> 1. I'd like to do an NMU upload to orphan the package. This is required to
> get the package on the "orphaned" list to notify developers that a new
> maintainer is needed.
>
> 2. I'd like to do an NMU upload of an updated version of the library,
> preferably with some help from a DD that has done library releases to insure
> the proper release processes are done. This seems like how things would be
> done in the Ubuntu world where packages don't have official maintainers.
> Updating the library would allow the packages depending on it to migrate,
> and would remove one of the 16 reverse-dependencies of libpcre3-dev.
This sounds all sensible. Make sure you do so in its Git repository[1].
If you need help you might actually specify in more detail what help is
needed - possibly also asking on debian-ment...@lists.debian.org.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/poco
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