Il 25/11/2023 18:10, Tobias Frost ha scritto:
Hi, thanks for reply. I recently did some help on this package because I use it, so when I see cases with issue and/or new upstream version (with useful things) where a lot of time passes I try to help if I have time.This seems a bit ouf of scope for an NMU (new upstream releases are NMUed only in exceptional cases) and #998105 is severity normal and #973760 is severity minor. (Please see the developers reference about NMUs.Do you have additional information why this should be an NMU? I'm seeing you are member of the repo, should your name be added as Uploaders and this be a regular upload? Did you reach out to the maintainers and get an ACK from them?
even if #998105 is only set "normal" is "a regression" that make users that backup over ssh waste time to found the workaround, I tried also to be fixed for bookworm (before release) with a upload with only this fix (https://salsa.debian.org/jmw/pkg-backintime/-/commit/0066cffd98aa09c5528cb94abedda5a1a5e59e3e) but was rejected by the maintainer, then he replied to me who just wanted to wait for the bookworm release and have additional things before making a new upload. so I gave up and waited until after the new upstream version came out (and I still waited another month before doing anything)
Although it is not such a long time or with such serious bugs from the general point of view of debian, some upstream developers and users have come to consider this package as abandoned, here is an example: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/backintime/+bug /2039271 (anyway In that case it would not have been possible to upload the new upstream version anyway as that Ubuntu version was in freeze)
I would prefer a normal upload (from the maintainer), already prepared and tested, it also saves time, but unfortunately as I wrote at the moment I have not received any response and I had only been given permission for the repository previously where I already started to prepare for new upload one month ago. I also write to upload with delay for give another possibility to the maintainer, if he will have time
regarding the maintainers list I think it would be good to have it in the debian python team but doing this or possibly adding me as co-maintainer is a choice of the current maintainer. however I can't guarantee that I would have enough time to follow it and make quick enough uploads when needed in the long term.
If the maintainer responds to me in the future I will ask if he wants do something.
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