Hello,
On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:14:27 +0100 Ian Jackson
<ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Package: adns
> Version: 1.5.0~rc1-1.2
>
> Hi, Gianfranco and Magnus. Thanks to both of you for taking care of
> my package. (CCing one of the bugs Gianfranco fixed, to have some
> kind of public record of this conversation.)
>
this is nice, thanks!
> Debian FTP Masters writes ("Processing of adns_1.5.1-0.1_source.changes"):
> > adns_1.5.1-0.1_source.changes uploaded successfully to localhost
> > along with the files:
> > adns_1.5.1-0.1.dsc
>
> Gianfranco, I'm not able to see this upload yet but I guess it
> includes the changes made by Magnus Holmgren in 1.5.0~rc1-1.2 ?
>
yes it is, I did forget a -e 10, and it went directly in unstable
(sorry for this, it wasn't something I wanted to do, I wanted to see the
previous version migrate before my one...)
> I was having a conversation with Magnus where we were discussing him
> maybe adopting the package, or becoming a co-maintainer, with my
> support.
>
> Gianfranco, were you aware of that ? Are you also interested in
> becoming a maintainer of adns ? I don't want to play the role of
> blocker but it surprised me that you would do such a lot of work,
> including changing the source packaging format, without trying to
> coordinate. Your work seems close to the kind of work a maintainer
> would do.
changing the packaging format has been something I needed to do, because for
some reasons I couldn't import
the new tarball with uscan+uupdate tools (sorry, I mostly always use quilt
packages, and I like them more because
I can handle them correctly)
>
> I don't want to quote my email exchange with Magnus here in this
> public bug, without his permission, but it was a good conversation.
no problem :)
>
> In particular, I asked Magnus to use dgit push[-source] for his NMU.
> I consider publishing the source properly via dgit important. I am
> still happy with the idea of the package gaining new maintainers, or
> being adopted, but of course I want to avoid friction.
>
I actually am not an user of adns directly, I wanted fix some bugs, make it in
sync with Ubuntu
(the bug is real also for Debian, some people might want to build from source
the package),
as well as to refine something in the packaging
> Gianfranco, is your work in git somewhere ? I'm not sure I agree with
> the decision to change the source package format but since I have been
> doing little work on this package, I don't feel I ought to try to veto
> it. I would like to hear what Magnus thinks.
>
You are free to revert whatever you prefer with a maintainer upload! :)
I would like to sync this package with Ubuntu, and then you can do whatever you
want and it will be autosyncd automatically.
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/adns
I created a quick and dirty packaging repo, importing mostly all the old
revisions in git (not all, because debsnap started after this package was
introduced in Debian)
If you like to have the package collaboratively maintained on salsa.d.o, I
guess some people might come and help in maintaining it :)
BTW you seem to be both Upstream and Debian, probably this is why you prefer
non-quilt mode, but I honestly don't know how to handle such diffs, I'm
relatively a "new guy" in Debian (with new meaning probably 10 years), and I
mostly always seen new packages packaged in quilt mode...
Anyway, let me know if you like my repo, and feel free to do a new upload if I
did any mistake or something you don't like can be changed :)
I will try to keep the package in good shape since now it is shown in my DDPO :)
thanks for the answer and sorry again for the unwanted fast NMU
G.
