Bug#827700: RFS: cplay/1.50-1 [NMU]

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:10:37AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> > I'm ccing them both, and a member of MIA team, even if I'm unsure about the
> > MIA process for non DD people,
> 
> MIA Team is also handling non-DD, so I'm on it already.

BTW, the maintianer *is* a DD (the comaintainer is not).
And the MIA process is not "just" about orphaning packages, but also
making sure whether the involved person is still interested in being
part of the project.

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Bug#827700: RFS: cplay/1.50-1 [NMU]

[Tobias Frost]

Hi Gianfranco,

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 06:54:38AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
 
> well, the package hasn't been touched in over a decade, so I presume
> it might be fine to upload the fixes in deferred/15, even as NMU.
> I guess they had *all* the time to refactor the package, and update it.
> 
> I'm ccing them both, and a member of MIA team, even if I'm unsure about the
> MIA process for non DD people,
> 

MIA Team is also handling non-DD, so I'm on it already.

-- 
tobi (for the MIA Team)

Bug#827700: RFS: cplay/1.50-1 [NMU]

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi,

>The changes I have quoted above are not usually appropriate for NMUs.
>In particular, changing from a version 1.0 to a 3.0 source package could
>annoy the current package maintainers a great deal.
>
>In this case, it looks like those package maintainers are inactive (no
>uploads since 2005).  You should contact the MIA team to have the
>package orphaned.  Then you can either adopt the package, or make your
>changes as a QA upload.
>


well, the package hasn't been touched in over a decade, so I presume
it might be fine to upload the fixes in deferred/15, even as NMU.
I guess they had *all* the time to refactor the package, and update it.

I'm ccing them both, and a member of MIA team, even if I'm unsure about the
MIA process for non DD people,

So, I think the particular bug can be fixed only with a package refactor, and
I don't want to throw away half of your work just because of policy, in case
of a package *clearly* unmaintained since 11 years.

just my .02$

Gianfranco

Bug#827700: RFS: cplay/1.50-1 [NMU]

[David Jones]

My apologies, I am still getting my head around everything. It had occurred
to me not long after I uploaded but I thought it was worth a shot. I shall
get in touch with the MIA team and make it a QA upload, assuming #817410
hasn't resulted in it being removed from the archive by then

On 22 June 2016 at 03:22, Sean Whitton  wrote:

> control: tag -1 +moreinfo
>
> Dear David,
>
> Thanks for working to fix up this package.
>
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 09:41:02PM +0100, David Jones wrote:
> >  * New upstream release (Closes: #279000, #375060, #413738)
> >  * Converted to quilt (3.0) (Closes: #664311)
> >  * Updated standards version to 3.9.8
> >  * Updated menu file
> >  * Updated watch file (Closes: #449776, #691239)
> >  * Converted copyright to DEP-5
>
> The changes I have quoted above are not usually appropriate for NMUs.
> In particular, changing from a version 1.0 to a 3.0 source package could
> annoy the current package maintainers a great deal.
>
> In this case, it looks like those package maintainers are inactive (no
> uploads since 2005).  You should contact the MIA team to have the
> package orphaned.  Then you can either adopt the package, or make your
> changes as a QA upload.
>
> Tagging bug as moreinfo in case there is something about the NMU policy
> I'm misunderstanding, so David can offer a justification.
>
> --
> Sean Whitton
>

Bug#827700: RFS: cplay/1.50-1 [NMU]

[Sean Whitton]

control: tag -1 +moreinfo

Dear David,

Thanks for working to fix up this package.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 09:41:02PM +0100, David Jones wrote:
>  * New upstream release (Closes: #279000, #375060, #413738)
>  * Converted to quilt (3.0) (Closes: #664311)
>  * Updated standards version to 3.9.8
>  * Updated menu file
>  * Updated watch file (Closes: #449776, #691239)
>  * Converted copyright to DEP-5

The changes I have quoted above are not usually appropriate for NMUs.
In particular, changing from a version 1.0 to a 3.0 source package could
annoy the current package maintainers a great deal.

In this case, it looks like those package maintainers are inactive (no
uploads since 2005).  You should contact the MIA team to have the
package orphaned.  Then you can either adopt the package, or make your
changes as a QA upload.

Tagging bug as moreinfo in case there is something about the NMU policy
I'm misunderstanding, so David can offer a justification.

-- 
Sean Whitton


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Bug#827700: RFS: cplay/1.50-1 [NMU]

[David Jones]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: important

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cplay"

* Package name: cplay
  Version : 1.50-1
  Upstream Author : Tomi Pieviläinen 
* URL : https://github.com/hukka/cplay
* License : GPL-2
  Section : sound

It builds those binary packages:

  cplay - A front-end for various audio players

To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:
https://mentors.debian.net/package/cplay


Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

  dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cplay/cplay_1.50-1.dsc

More information about hello can be obtained from https://www.example.com.

Changes since the last upload:

 * Non-maintainer upload.
 * New upstream release (Closes: #279000, #375060, #413738)
 * Converted to quilt (3.0) (Closes: #664311)
 * Updated debhelper level to 9 (Closes: #817410, #808639)
 * Updated standards version to 3.9.8
 * Updated menu file
 * Updated watch file (Closes: #449776, #691239)
 * Refreshed patches and removed if included upstream
 * Converted copyright to DEP-5

Regards,
  David William Richmond Jones