retitle 616131 ITA: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 4.0 support package owner 616131 !
Hi all, (tl;dr Git repository with actual state is available, please help :->) I just noticed the worrying state of the LSB package in Debian: * Still in version 3.2 (released in January 2008) while 4.1 is out since a year (coincidently today); * RFA'd - #616131; * "behind" Ubuntu since at least Karmic (9.10) which already had 4.0. I would like to get the LSB package up to date before Wheezy's freeze, planned for June. For now, I just filled a Git repository [0] with all past Debian (at least those available on snapshot.debian.org) and Ubuntu releases (on the master-ubuntu branch). I think I mostly got authors and dates straight, but it was not fun. Now my intentions (despite limited available time) are: 1) put it under explicit team maintenance; Maintainer: debian-...@lists.debian.org ? [1] Uploaders: Myself + Chris ? 2) push the repository to collab-maint; 3) merge most of the current lsb (4.0) Ubuntu package into it, including dpkg-vendor magic to have both distros handled. 4) if needed, update it to 4.1; 5) upload a new version to experimental as soon as possible; 6) triage and if possible address all Debian bugs; 7) update the packaging to modern practices (short dh, etc) So, is anybody willing to join the fun ? Steve, Colin, Matthias: as the 3 last persons that uploaded the Ubuntu lsb package: would you be interested in merging the effort and (once done) try maintaining it in Debian first ? Cheers, OdyX [0] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/odyx-guest/lsb.git [1] Given the current traffic of that list, putting that list as maintainer should not generate a too low SNR IMHO.
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