Hi Samuel, (replying above the message as it's all quite relevant but I don't have anything specific to comment on) It's true that I have a lot less time nowadays than a couple of years ago to spend on Debian, unfortunately. This is becoming more and more obvious. Feel free to upload a new release with your changes. I'd like to still be to "official" maintainer, so I would like to review your stuff first.
Thanks for your work! Paul On Sun 23 Dec 2018, Samuel Henrique wrote: > > It got to my attention the rsync is a little behind our standards wrt to > packaging and it looks like the maintainer doesn't have time to deal with > that at the moment. > > Basically what I want to do is to upload the new release (along with some > packaging fixes), adding new Uploaders while keeping the original > Maintainer, or maybe moving it to a team while also keeping the original > maintainer. > > The few changes that I already made: > - Package the last release (which fixes a good amount of bugs and security > issues) > - Create a git repo on Salsa and use git for packaging [0] > - Fix d/watch in order to be able to use uscan to download new releases > > Things that I would like to have fixed, either for Buster or later: > - Use debhelper with quilt instead of a complex d/rules that manually > apply patches > - Use autopkgtests > - Bug triage > > I understand that as I'm not familiar with the rsync packaging, some of the > things may have been a explicit maintainer choice with a rational behind > it, and that could be either spotted by a more experienced Debian > Developer, explained by Paul, or discovered when changing it. > > Here are the points which leads me to think the maintainer might need help > with rsync: > - Last upload of rsync from maintainer was almost 2 years ago > - Last upload of maintainer (any package) was in March 2017 > - There were two NMUs after that > - There is an open bug (#906895) since January asking for packaging of the > new release, without replies from maintainer[1] > - A lot of open bugs, 74 as of now. > > On a side note, I can see that there was recent (August 2018) email > activity from Paul, so hopefully he may reply something about this. > > Overall, I can see that rsync is not a simple package to deal with, Paul > having made a great job for many years all by himself, I would like to > receive help with that so we all can ship a better rsync on Buster :) > > The transition freeze is for 12th January of 2019, so we would need to > upload this new release asap, in order to account for time to fix any RC > bug that may show up before the new release enters Testing. We can also > pick which changes we want to ship for Buster and which ones we want to > upload to experimental because we don't wanna risk introducing bugs that > close to the freeze. > > Thanks, > > [0]https://salsa.debian.org/debian/rsync > [1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906895 > > > -- > Samuel Henrique <samueloph>
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