Hi Andre Am Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 04:37:40PM +0200 schrieb Andre Noll: > > I noticed that your private repository contained changelog entries > > pretending releases of a new upstream version but these never have > > reached the Debian mirrors. > > Right. I proposed a way forward, but got no reply from the any of the Debian > people involved. See Bug#1086623. > > Due to this bug, both tfortune and lopsub were removed from testing on July > 26th.
It was removed due to bug #1126662 actually. > Given this and the fact that I already spent way too much time on > an issue that should take five minutes to resolve, I decided to not invest > further time on Debian integration issues. IOW, Debian just lost a > contributor. That's sad to hear. Does this mean you want to orphan your packages? If so I can do a QA upload and make the QA team maintainer. > In fact, I already removed the tfortune web page and its git repo, continuing > development non-publicly. I do not understand why the fact that you are not happy to maintain some software in Debian (which I can understand to some extend) is a motivation to remove a repository containing GPL-3 software (which can be used by other distributions or users who want to compile it from scratch) from the web. > This is why the vcs tracker complains. The only > reason the lopsub repo and web page are still online is that other projects > of mine (see the link in the signature below) depend on it. I'm planning to > remove the "debian" branch of lopsub, though, because it is not needed to > build the package from source. Its actually very sensible to remove the debian/ dir from upstream source repositories. > I might reconsider this decision if somebody volunteers to act as the > Debian maintainer for both tfortune and lopsub. The fact that you are seeking for a new maintainer is not obvious at all. As I said I could do QA uploads and file according Orphan bugs for both packages. This expresses that a new maintainer is needed. > This person's job would be > to maintain the debian/ directory to improve the integration with the Debian > infrastructure, to upload new versions, and to coordinate non-Debian related > changes with me. If nobody is willing to do this work, the packages should > probably get removed. Alternatively to orphaning you can file a removal bug. Debian has a strict package ownership model. So you are the person who can decide whether orphaning or removing would be appropirate and you can ask for removal as well (Hint: `reportbug other` and follow the menu). I admit I'd be motivated to do a QA upload of https://salsa.debian.org/debian/liblopsub since I've spent some time into it and doing something similar with tfortune would be easy as well. Just let me know what you want to do and how I can help you in doing so. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de
