Sure. I think you can just retitle an existing Orphan-bug and close it by next upload.
Regards Anton Am Samstag, 26. September 2015 schrieb Ghislain Vaillant : > Absolutely! > > Shall I file an ITA for freeimage and begin transitioning the packaging > repository to d-science? > > Ghis > > > On 25/09/15 21:04, Anton Gladky wrote: > >> Hi Ghislain, >> >> I made the previous upload of freeimage to fix RC-bug and >> had the same idea to adopt freeimage under Debian-Science. >> >> As far as I understand openjpeg is already in Debian [1]. >> >> So, let`s do it? >> >> [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjpeg2 >> >> Cheers >> >> Anton >> >> >> 2015-09-16 11:17 GMT+02:00 Ghislain Vaillant <ghisv...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> From Raphael: >>> >>>> Hopefully one the of the people who will discover this RC bug (because >>>> their package depends on freeimage or whatever) can be convinced to take >>>> over this package... it has been orphaned for way too long. >>>> >>> >>> I am one such package maintainers (ArrayFire) affected by the autorm of >>> freeimage. Also, other projects I am involved with do use freeimage. I >>> may >>> consider taking over the maintenance of freeimage under d-science but >>> want >>> to evaluate the amount of efforts that would require first. >>> >>> From Scott: >>> >>>> Freeimage > 1.5.4 (that is, the current sid version) requires OpenJPEG >>>> 2.1.0, which is not in Debian. >>>> >>> >>> At this moment, the best course of action may be to simply carry the new >>>> patches Raphael pointed out rather than updating freeimage then working >>>> to >>>> remove openjpeg 2.1 support. >>>> >>> >>> Which you hinted to be a non-trivial task, isn't it? Would it make things >>> easier if OpenJPEG was updated to 2.1.0 in Debian? I guess it would be a >>> requirement for a potential update of freeimage to 3.17 onwards? >>> >>> Just trying to define what the "ideal" course of actions should be. I >>> understand the latter is currently far from reality. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Ghislain >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe, send mail to 797165-unsubscr...@bugs.debian.org. >>> >> -- Anton
