Hi Christian, Thank you for your message and very glad to hear that your personal matters have been resolved sufficiently that you can continue with your maintainership of vnstat (and also logrotate).
It has been an enjoyable couple of weeks of learning for me relative to the art of packaging for Debian-based systems. My intention to become a maintainer only began when Teemu (upstream dev of vnstat) wrote me back in response to a bug report I sent him (about that vnstatd man page issue) and mentioned that he'd had trouble getting in touch with you. So that prompted me to "step in" and see if I could be of help. If you are open to working as a team to maintain vnstat that would be wonderful, as it would give me continued opportunities for learning and collaboration relative to the whole matter of Debian packaging. If you would like to ask for a shared repository then I would be very happy to participate as a team member. Also, thank you for the two technical notes you supplied about build issues with vnstat. The past few days since my commits last Wednesday have been busy with other packaging matters for Ubuntu-based systems, however I have now done two new commits this morning for those issues you mentioned and have uploaded a new NMU [1] to mentors. It seems to be passing Lintian now, though with one small side comment about me not being in the "Maintainers" or "Uploaders" field of debian/control. Well, once again very glad you are back in action and I look forward to the possibilities of collaboration on maintaining vnstat together. Thanks, Rob [1] https://mentors.debian.net/package/vnstat On 09/01/2019 05:14 AM, Christian Göttsche wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Thanks for taking interest in the vnStat Debian package. > As I mentioned in the MIA thread, I was indisposed due to personal matters. > > I appreciate your done work of packaging vnStat 2.4 and your ambition > to become a maintainer. > vnStat is a great tool I'm still using and I like to continue caring > about the Debian package. > Perhaps we could package vnStat together in a team, so we can support > each other in matters of time and knowledge. > > Technically I can ask for a shared repository > salsa.debian.org/debian/vnstat with access for us and we need to > update the Maintainer/Uploaders control field. > > Regards, > Christian Göttsche > > > > p.s.: > > While trying your package from > https://salsa.debian.org/savoury1-guest/vnstat I noticed two issues: > > * Due to the move of the vnstatd man page, the build fails, because > the path is not updated in debian/vnstat.install > * Lintian recommends adding "Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}" to > debian/control (see > https://lintian.debian.org/tags/skip-systemd-native-flag-missing-pre-depends.html) >
