El vie, 12 feb 2021 a las 23:05, Alen Zekulic (<azeku...@debian.org>) escribió: > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 13:25:23 +0100, Agustin Martin wrote: > > > Alen, I plan to upload a NMU with this changes and may be some minor > > issues. Even if I have not written rexx for years I think it would be > > a pity to have this package with this open bug. > > I agree, please go ahead!
Uploaded. > > Also, one issue with this package is that Debian build system is > > ancient, even pre-debhelper. This makes everything a nightmare. I > > have been playing with a migration to traditional (no dh sequencer) > > debhelper. This should fix another bug report about build > > reproduciibility. I am aware that this is a rather invasive change, > > but I think is required to make contributors life easier, let me know > > your POV. > > I planed to migrate my debian/rules to debhelper too. When I was playing with this there were still some issues. Once I find time to continue and consider things in good shape, I will let you know. Another thing I think may be interesting is to split the a-z patch into smaller chunks for better handling. > > Other thing I noticed is that this package has no repo under > > salsa. I can prepare a git repo with regina history and put it under > > salsa/debian group. Alen, please tell me if you object to this, I > > consider it important and will proceed unless you object explicitly. > > Any help is greatly appreciated, I have no objection, quite the > contrary! When I was creating the repo I noticed that there was already a repo created under debian salsa group by Boyuan Yang, with commits for a NMU that was never uploaded, so I used it. Reverted one thing, no need to B-D on debhelper just to pull autotools-dev, debhelper is currently unused. > > By the way, upstream is active and there are new versions available, > > although I will focus on current upstream version in Debian. > > Mark and I are in contact. We plan to roll out the latest releases of > Regina REXX (3.9.4) and The Hessling Editor (3.3) as soon as possible. Nice to know, Regards, -- Agustin
