Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I request assistance with maintaining the apt-listbugs package.

The other co-maintainer (Ryan Niebur) is currently almost MIA and
finally told me that he no longer wants to be involved in apt-listbugs
maintenance: see <http://bugs.debian.org/588636> and
<http://git.debian.org/?p=apt-listbugs/apt-listbugs.git;a=commitdiff;h=b999e0ba2f3c03ee367e45d7e8de4abbfe892457>
if you want to read the full story...

I would say that the package is generally in a decent shape:
it normally works as intended, lintian does not complain about it,
its non-pending bug count is decreasing
(see <http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/a/apt-listbugs.png>),
I usually manage to deal with bug reports and go ahead with developing
work by myself, ...

However, I sometimes need help with Ruby (I am not yet the Ruby expert
I would dream to be!) or with packaging techniques (I am still learning
them!).

Hence, I would like to find someone else who could co-maintain the
package with me.

The ideal candidate

 * has experience with the Ruby language

 * knows how to use Git

 * has Debian packaging experience

 * is willing to dedicate some time to this package (the amount of
   needed time is not big: I will mostly need some review of my work,
   and occasionally some help on stuff I am not too expert at)

Bonus points if the candidate is a DD or a DM, since I have no upload
rights (and hence I would need a sponsor for each upload, in the
absence of a DD or DM co-maintainer).

Thanks in advance to anyone who volunteers!



The package description is:
 apt-listbugs is a tool which retrieves bug reports from the Debian Bug
 Tracking System and lists them. Especially, it is intended to be invoked
 before each upgrade/installation by apt in order to check whether the
 upgrade/installation is safe.
 .
 Many developers and users prefer the unstable version of Debian for its new
 features and packages.  apt, the usual upgrade tool, can break your system by
 installing a buggy package.
 .
 apt-listbugs lists critical bug reports from the Debian Bug Tracking System.
 Run it before apt to see if an upgrade or installation is known to be unsafe.



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