Hi,
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. I'll try to reach out with mail first and then, if needed, try to help. Kind regards, Julien > On 4/9/25 6:19 PM, Julien Cabieces wrote: >> I was aware about this comment (though I actually didn't read the part >> about salvaging which was instructive, my bad) but I was wondering: >> - If the recent activity means that someone somehow has taking over the >> package maintenance and a new package is about to arrive in unstable ? > > The recent upload of qwt (6.3.0-1) is a positive development, but it doesn't > mean that it will be moved to unstable anytime soon. > > The SONAME bump requires coordinating a transition with the release team, and > they won't accept any until after the trixie release. > > " > * no new transitions > " > https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html#transition > >> - Is there anything to be fixed that prevent the package to move to >> testing ? I see 3 comments with "high" status, is it blocking? > > The new upstream release is in experimental now: > > " > New upstream version available: 6.3.0-rc1 (already in experimental, but not > in unstable) (currently in unstable: 6.1.4-2) > " > https://udd.debian.org/dmd/?gudjon%40gudjon.org#todo > > > A. Maitland Bottoms <[email protected]> needs to be added to the members of > the Salsa repo to be able to push his changes, one of the owners should do > that. > > https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/extras/qwt/-/project_members?sort=access_level_desc > > Email the people involved and/or use the team mailinglist: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/ > > > The lintian issues are for the version in unstable, the version in > experimental may have addressed (some of) those issues or not. > > Why don't you build the package revision from experimental in an unstable > chroot with the lintian hook enabled to find out, and then follow up by > sending patches? > > https://debian-gis-team.pages.debian.net/policy/packaging.html#git-pbuilder > https://debian-gis-team.pages.debian.net/policy/packaging.html#git-pbuilder-hooks > >> - Is it possible to propose a NMU (Non-Maintener Uploads) if there is any >> something to be fixed > > NMUs at this time are highly inappropriate. Send patches to the new > maintainer instead, ideally join the QT/KDE team and help co-maintain the > packaging on Salsa. > > Kind Regards, > > Bas -- Julien Cabieces Senior Developer at Oslandia [email protected] _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel
