Andreas,
Thank you for reaching out to me. I'd love to move the packaging branches
of all my packages to Salsa.
There is never too much free time, and on the couple of occasions I tried,
I usually got stuck on the "which team" and "which one of the competing
branch formats to pick" questions.
Regarding the --shuffle=reverse bug, looking at my old notes it seems I
managed to figure out that the right way to fix it upstream is probably by
using grouped targets:
foo bar biz &: baz boz
echo $^ > foo
echo $^ > bar
echo $^ > biz
but I got stuck trying to figure out which "make" versions support this and
how to detect a version that's too old at build time to provide a good
error message...
Anyway, I trust you'll do the right thing, feel free to go ahead.
Marcin
wt., 12 maj 2026 o 11:06 Andreas Tille <[email protected]> napisał(a):
> Hi Marcin,
>
> today the package potool came up as a candidate for the Bug of the Day
> effort[1].
>
> There has not been an upstream release for quite some time (thus
> upstream has not given much reason for an upload) and the bug that
> came up is rather minor:
>
> make --shuffle=reverse: po-gram.lex:19:10: fatal error: po.tab.h: No
> such file or directory
>
> This is not really visible to users. The third criterion for the bug of
> the day selection is that the package repository is not maintained on
> Salsa.
>
> As you may have noticed, I have spent quite some effort over the last
> two years helping migrate packages to our common collaboration platform,
> Salsa. I believe having a shared Debian-hosted forge lowers the entry
> barrier for newcomers, since contributors only need a single account
> instead of subscribing to various external forges.
>
> I also noticed quite a few commits from Janitor in your GitHub
> repository and I think while possible this is more transparent on
> Salsa.
>
> For these reasons, I would be very happy if you would consider migrating
> the repository of this package to Salsa.
>
> What do you think? If you agree I'd happily do the migration - most
> probably to the Debian team - fix the bug and do a NMU of this package
> as another tiny task where newcomers might get an idea how to fix bugs
> in a consistent way in Debian.
>
> Kind regards
> Andreas.
>
>
> [1]
> https://salsa.debian.org/qa/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks#bug-of-the-day
>
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