Hello Team, As you know, we are close to the soft freeze for the bullseye release[0], so I started working on the packages that didn't have any uploads made after the last stable release (mid 2019).
If you feel like looking for something to work on, I would be happy to have someone helping me tidying up our team's packages. My approach to it is currently to pick any package with the same version in stable and testing and working on a new upload, even if it's just to bump the usual stuff like debhelper and policy, most of the packages can benefit from a simple rebuild (which will use an updated tooling, like a newer compiler). For pretty much all of the ones I worked on there was more to it though, like the famous "Rules-Require-Root"[1] field or even a missing upstream signature, so I can say it's not that boring. After taking a look at the packages with the old last-upload date, I'd like to take a look at any packages that are not shipping the latest upstream version and see if it's sane to package it (talking about small upstream changes here) and then take a look at any open bugs we have. As usual, I'd be happy to sponsor any uploads, and we have about 2 days left for this work (for the packages that take 10 days to migrate). Cheers, [0] https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html [1] For which in one case I could patch upstream to enable a "rootless build" -- Samuel Henrique <samueloph>