Hello Raphael, The work in libewf salsa repository was interrupted by upstream maintainer Joachim Metz. He was against publishing libewf-experimental-20171104 [1] into debian unstable and insisted on using legacy version libewf-20140807 [2]. Salsa watch file points to the wrong repository, the version 20140807 is last stable version, and the version 20171104 from experimental should not migrate.
I and Hilko did not had time to correct wrong and half-done salsa git history. I believe we should 1. Rename current debian/master branch to debian/master-old (or something) 2. Start new debian/master from the commit it diverged with published version and use gbp import-orig/import-dsc 3. Do the same for the debian/expiremental branch Some time ago I've partly done this work in [3], but now I'm overloaded with another project. [1] https://github.com/libyal/libewf/releases [2] https://github.com/libyal/libewf-legacy/releases [3] https://salsa.debian.org/alexk-guest/libewf On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 8:54 PM Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to upload all the packages that still have a bad maintainer > field (old list) and libewf is among them. But there's a new upstream > version available in experimental. > > That version was prepared in debian/experimental (note that the tag has not > been pushed) but in parallel I see other diverging commits by Aleksey > Kravchenko > in debian/master. > > Can one of you merge both branches and handle the library transition > in unstable in coordination with the release managers ? > > Cheers, > -- > Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer > > Support Debian LTS: https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html > Learn to master Debian: https://debian-handbook.info/get/ >
