Il 12/03/2018 12:22, Helmut Grohne ha scritto: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 01:14:14PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: >> I'd like to drop maintenance of doxygen. I think I hijacked that package in >> 2004 >> to be able to build the libstdc++ docs from the GCC sources. Now that the >> package needs a concise understanding about the javascript issues (sources, >> different upstream versions), I'd like to stay off that maintenance task. >> Helmut >> Grohne has been a substantial help with the javascript issues, but decided to >> leave co-maintainership. Basically I'm asking for a new maintainer with the >> understanding of the javascript issues, the implications for Debian policy, >> and >> the willingness to adopt the package to build documentation of Debian >> packages. > > I'd like to take the opportunity to thank Matthias for his time as sole > and primary Doxygen maintainer for such a long time. It certainly isn't > a thankful package as every new upstream release tends to make some > other package FTBFS. Dealing with the bug reports can be a tiresome task > indeed and Matthias has certainly endured that for a long time. The > balance of how close to stay with upstream defaults is difficult to > strike. Communicating issues with upstream likely needs more time as > well. > > I'd also like to thank Paolo Greppi, who stepped up and triaged a number > of bugs in 2013. Paolo, are you still interested in Doxygen? Now would > be a good time to say so. > > In case someone wants to adopt Doxygen, I'm happy to share my knowledge > of the package. > > Helmut
Hi Helmut, thanks for the mail. It looks like this one is 1 or 2 orders of magnitude more complex than any package I currently maintain ! Also ATM I'm dm not dd so I'd need a sponsor for the uploads and/or (later) be granted upload permissions. But nonetheless I started to look at it. I would prefer to maintain it with gbp, and I have created a git repo for that: https://salsa.debian.org/paolog-guest/doxygen/tree/debian/sid (this only has the current versions for wheezy, jessie, stretch, buster and sid plus some minor changes on the debian/sid branch) I wonder what would be the correct location on salsa, probably not inside paolog-guest ? Also it would be nice if the original uploaders were to sign the tags ? In conclusion, I could adopt it, unless of course someone more experienced than me steps in. It would be of great help to get from you both an informal overview of TODOs, priorities, _really_ critical bugs etc. Paolo
