Thank you for your effort, Russ! To those of us left, I think we should try to get an automatic package build system. I guess if we were hosting at GitHub we could do GitHub Actions to automatically build packages for any pull requests. Do we have something like that in Savannah?
-Øystein On Sun, 8 Sept 2024, 23:06 Russ Allbery, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > (Please cc me on replies that you want me to see, since I may not be > reading the list.) > > I'm stepping down as the maintainer of the Debian gnubg package due to > lack of time. Since I've been packaging gnubg for Debian since 2005 (good > lord), I thought I'd let everyone know that the package will need a new > maintainer. The Debian package is also the source of the Ubuntu package. > > I've just pushed an update to 1.08.003 with the 3D board re-enabled as > part of orphaning the package, so hopefully I'm leaving gnubg in good > shape. It's now marked as orphaned in Debian and is ready for anyone else > to adopt. > > I'm afraid that I can't help with uploads or package sponsorship, but > there are groups within Debian such as debian-mentors that may be able to > help. I believe there is also a team in Debian devoted to packaging games > that may be able to provide assistance. > > Thank you for the excellent software! I've gotten many hours of enjoyment > out of it over the years. Also thank you for being an excellent upstream > for packaging and for all of your helpful responses to my questions and > various mistakes and confusions. > > -- > Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > >
