Martín Ferrari writes ("Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?"): > I am writing on behalf of the Anti-Harassment team, as our input has > been requested on this issue.
Thanks for your considered and helpful response. > our recommendation would be to either work with > upstream on correcting these issues, forking and/or patching it, or just > removing the package. There is still enough time to find a solution that > respects our users and our community while keeping a useful piece of > software in the archive. That would be great. Speaking personally I am definitely willing to talk to anyone about this but ... experience suggests that, despite my best efforts, my communication style does not lead to happiness in these kind of situations. I think it would be best if someone else would take the lead in negotiations. OTOH if it is necessary to diverge from upstream: I have a lot of experience with build systems and version control systems and could probably help with the technical work. I would be tempted to write a git-filter-branch script, because that would produce a probably-useable git history and make it easier to handle future upstream updates. I am happy to do that technical work if we can agree, within Debian (including, obviously, the Debian maintainer) on the basic shape. I look forward to hearing from the Debian maintainer, who I think is the first point of contact for the management of the package in Debian. Thanks, Ian.