Control: forcemerge 991778 619936 On Wed, 2022-07-27 at 00:20 +0200, Patrik Schindler wrote:
> I'll think about it. Seems I won't inherit a huge list of > unresolvable bugs. My decision might be based upon the availability > of a concise "what it takes to be a package maintainer" > documentation. The basic process is that you upload package changes to mentors.d.n and then search for a sponsor, who inspects the package and uploads it to Debian. The maintainer should respond to bug reports and other queries. Since this package also has no upstream project, the maintainer should also try to fix bugs that are reported rather than forwarding them upstream. Since dlint is also in several different distros, it might be worth creating a new upstream project and using that as the basis of the Debian package, then getting other distros to use it too, this would be optional of course though. You'll need a mentors.d.n account and since the dlint package is stored in git, you will also need an account on the Debian Salsa service. Since the git repo is in Florian's namespace, that would also need to be moved to the debian namespace. Perhaps if Florian returns he could become your sponsor for this :) https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/ https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dlint https://repology.org/project/dlint/packages https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa > Btw., I apparently created a second bug report, this one (991778) for > the same issue. Browsing the still open bugs list it appears, I've > created a bug report for the same issue a decade before, 619936. In future, please do check for existing bugs before filing new ones, if you use reportbug then it will show you the list of open bugs. > And already provided a similar solution. > Which didn't make it into the releases in between. I guess Florian didn't have time to look at all the bugs when he made the last dlint update in 2019. > Maybe close one of them, marked as dupe? We can simply merge the bugs, which keeps it open but hides it when the bug list is set to hide merged bugs. Done using the command above. https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting#control https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#forcemerge -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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