Hi there! Juliusz, it is better to point your question to the *maintainer* of the package, not to debian-devel@ (which is not a mandatory mailing list for all the maintainers). Adding the Debian Common Lisp team to the loop.
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:25:19 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > It seems that there are no outstanding bugs against the package, so > there should be no problem with using the existing package, and I see > that 0.6 is still the current version so I presume that it's not a fast > moving package, so should really only need uploads as bugs are reported, > or once every release to keep up with relevant policy changes. The package is bug-free, yes, and I would say it is even less that "a fast moving package", the latest upstream release being the one we had in main (plus some patches from one year and a half ago). NB, I have not checked the full darcs repositories, but only the NEWS file on it. I am not saying that the package is not anymore interesting because upstream seems dead. And if you read the email I linked from #610903, you can see that I have checked for alternatives, missing paps, however: Message-ID: <87fwt921lt....@gismo.pca.it> URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-common-lisp-devel/2011-January/002522.html> > I'd imagine that Luca would be willing to hold your hand for the first > upload if that helps (assuming that he's still up to speed on the > package). Luca? No problem in re-doing an upload, but this is the *last* action I will do for this package. Really, I do not even remember why I started maintaining it, I think it was when we switched to team maintenance in the Debian Common Lisp team. And given that I have abandoned all my Common Lisp work, I do not see the point in keeping myself in the Uploaders: field... FYI, I do not use cedilla. Another possibility would be to have cedilla added to clbuild <http://common-lisp.net/project/clbuild/>, which is officially supported in the common-lisp-controller package since version 7.0 (clc-build wrapper), and in some way also before starting from version 6.19. On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:12:01 +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >> There is always the option of either recruiting one of those >> disappointed users to maintain the package, or doing it yourself. > > Thanks for the suggestion -- but I'm already spending all of my > proverbial Copious Free Time on upstream work. Well, to be clear I am already out of time, not only for my Debian work. >> It seems a shame to lose a bug-free package when you apparently have >> users that are going to miss it. > > I think so too. But I cannot be doing everything. FWIW, me neither. I thought about keeping cedilla and actually orphaning it, as you can read in one of my emails (the one linked from #610903): Message-ID: <87fwt921lt....@gismo.pca.it> URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-common-lisp-devel/2011-January/002522.html> But please note that after having waited one month and a half, no one From the Debian Common Lisp team replied to my request for help: Message-ID: <8762uvjimb....@gismo.pca.it> URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-common-lisp-devel/2010-December/002483.html> I know about the "correct" procedure when orphaning packages, but I thought that if someone was interested she/he should have shown up way before my call for help. And I do not think having more than 300 packages maintained by the QA team is a good thing: <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=packa...@qa.debian.org> So, to summarise, what I can do is: I upload the same version which was removed from main (plus the maintainer set to the QA team), ask for a fast review to pass NEW (hi, Alexander!) and to the Release team to have it quickly migrated into testing. Then I orphan the package with a bug to wnpp and I *forget* about it. Peter, you performed the last upload, what do you think? Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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