I second this proposal, and the same for src:liblinear. These are high popcon packages, dependencies for a number of other packages. They should be team maintained to unblock important fixes.
On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 08:35:28AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Chen-Tse, > > I'm maintaining a package that depends from libsvm. Due to bug #936924 > that did not received any response since August it is in danger to be > removed from testing so I'm interested that this bug will be fixed. > When looking at the package I realised that while it would fit into > Debian Science team scope it is not team maintained nor is there any > repository in Salsa. That's why I have the following suggestion: > > 1. I create a repository on Salsa > 2. Move the package to Debian Science team maintenance > and add you as Uploader > 3. Drop Python2 package and close bug #936924 > 4. May be migrate packaging from cdbs to dh > > If I do not hear from you until Monday I assume you agree with this > plan and will do so. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > PS: @Christian: I noticed that you and Chen-Tse are maintaining > liblinear. I have just removed Python2 package and reassigned > #936889 to ftp.debian.org to make sure python-liblinear will be > removed. Thus libsvm can be dealt as suggested. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de >