Bug#1068436: transmission RFS

2024-04-07 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
Well, it's not a *violation* of the DFSG to include derived files in the upstream sources, as long as the source needed to regenerate them is also included. That's often done for bootstrapping compilers. Source tarballs also often include documentation PDFs and such so people installing the

Bug#1068436: transmission RFS

2024-04-07 Thread Alexandre Rossi
Hi, > Well, given that the main maintainer dropped themselves from the > debian/control file, I think the package can be freely adopted, > keeping Leo Antunes on of course in case he reappears. I'll drop the > two of them a note asking for objections, and assuming there are none, > I'd suggest we

Bug#1068436: transmission RFS

2024-04-07 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sat, Apr 06, 2024 at 06:43:08PM +, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > Well, given that the main maintainer dropped themselves from the > debian/control file, I think the package can be freely adopted, > keeping Leo Antunes on of course in case he reappears. I'll drop the > two of them a note

Bug#1068436: transmission RFS

2024-04-06 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
Well, given that the main maintainer dropped themselves from the debian/control file, I think the package can be freely adopted, keeping Leo Antunes on of course in case he reappears. I'll drop the two of them a note asking for objections, and assuming there are none, I'd suggest we go ahead with

Bug#1068436: transmission RFS

2024-04-06 Thread Alexandre Rossi
Hi, > In the meantime, I note that Sandro Tosi has dropped his > maintainership of the package, but pushed a debian/4.0.5-2 tag without > uploading. Do you know the status of that? I have had no answer from both listed maintainers since last January. I have tried to contact them through salsa

Bug#1068436: transmission RFS

2024-04-06 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
I use transmission constantly and would be happy to sponsor. In principle of course: assuming there are no technical show-stoppers. I already have my own fork on salsa.debian.org/bap/transmission with some very minor tweaks. In the meantime, I note that Sandro Tosi has dropped his maintainership