On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 04:04:18PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Wouter, > > Am Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 03:31:43PM +0200 schrieb Wouter Verhelst: > > [Feel free to quote any part of this email which I wrote outside of this > > mailinglist] > > OK, moving the discussion to debian-devel where it should belong. > > > Debian packages need to be well maintained. In some cases, having > > multiple maintainers on a package improves the resulting quality of > > packages. But in some other cases, it does not; one example for this > > second case is my package "logtool", which I'm going to upload to fix > > #1066251 soon and for which by the simple act of doing that I will > > double the amount of uploads it's seen in the past five years (and the > > number of uploads in the past 10 can still be counted on the fingers of > > a single hand). > > > > This is not because it's not well maintained; it's because the package > > just *does not require* a lot of work to be kept up to date: upstream > > has not been active for over 20 years, but it still performs the job it > > was designed to do, as it was designed to, and I see no need to have it > > removed from the archive. > > What is your opinion about pushing logtool to Salsa?
I did that as part of my latest upload :) https://salsa.debian.org/wouter/logtool (I realize now that I forgot to add VCS headers... ah well, next time I'm sure) [...] > > If there are stupid barriers to helping people out by doing NMUs or > > taking over packages, then by all means let's break down those barriers. > > I was sometimes confronted with those barriers. And that's not good, and we should work on those. I just don't think that mandating team maintenance drops those barriers. -- w@uter.{be,co.za} wouter@{grep.be,fosdem.org,debian.org} I will have a Tin-Actinium-Potassium mixture, thanks.