On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 07:49:14PM +0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Damian, my mentee, and I are interested in adopting this.
That is actually great news! I really did not want to orphan a pseudo-essential package... Thanks! > Our plan would be to: > 1. Move this to the shared salsa.debian.org/debian/zstd namespace as I > don't see any particular reason this is tied to the RPM team Cool, yeah, the only reason it was moved there was because it was needed by a couple of RPM packages (before dpkg started depending on it), and at the time it was in the Debian Med team (because before that it had been needed by a couple of med-team-related packages :)), so... :) > 2. Review all four open MRs and work with their submitters to finalize them > 3. Activate Salsa CI and do a maintenance upload with all packaging > related items updated (although I see you already updated to Debhelper > 14) Yeah, I try to keep my packages in relatively good shape, and sometimes I even succeed... mostly :) BTW about activating Salsa CI: the last couple of times I tried that, I ran into timeout issues, because the libzstd tests take A LONG, LONG TIME. Just keep that in mind. > 4. Review open bugs in Debian and Ubuntu and fix all packaging-related ones > 5. Import the new upstream version and mark all bugs fixed by upstream > 6. Collaborate with upstream to fix at least all the easy remaining > bugs in Debian and Ubuntu > > Does this sound good to you? It sounds wonderful indeed! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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