On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 07:58:02PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:17:14PM +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > > Neil: your simple patch stops debfile from crashing when it sees xz > > compressed packages but doesn't permit debfile to work with these > > files. A patch for this has now existed in the bts for a while now. > > Ack. > > > I've been very much hoping that someone would look over this patch and > > provide some feedback on it and/or merge it. Perhaps, at this stage, > > we should just upload it and deal with any bugs. > > > > Perhaps I've not made it clear enough in the past, but I am quite > > willing to help out with python-debian maintenance. I would, however, > > be happier if there were some code review of contributions. > > Stuart, thanks a lot for both your patch and your willingness to help > with python-debian maintenance. For one thing, I very much welcome your > help and I encourage you to add yourself to the Uploaders field and > proceed with an upload (see below for a review of your xz patch). > > I can't speak for the python-debian team as a whole but, in fact, I > think we've been *lacking* such a team for the past few years. I'm still > on this list and follow it, but I don't expect to be able to be an > active maintainer for python-debian in the near future. The most active > person over the past few years here has probably been John Wright, which > I'm now Cc:-ing explicitly. John, if you have objections to Stuart > adding himself to the Uploaders please say so.
Stuart, please feel free to add yourself to Uploaders. I haven't had much time, unfortunately, for Debian in general recently, but I would love to see python-debian continue to work with files from recent Debian versions. I will try be more on top of python-debian reviews, at the least. If you want another pair of eyes on this patch, I can look at it later this week (or weekend), but I trust Zack's judgement. > Separately, and barring objections from John, please ping me on IRC in a > few days and I'll add you to the alioth group so that you can push to > the Git repo. > > And many thanks for not giving up on us! :-) Ditto. -- John Wright <[email protected]>
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