Control: retitle -1 Package needs an active maintainer On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 02:46:41PM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Debian is currently shipping ipv6calc 1.0.0. Upstream has released 12 > new upstream releases since, and is currently at 4.0.0.
Upstream has been regularly making releases and is now at 4.1.0. I discussed this a bit in #debian-qa, and after a bit of encouragement, I decided to work a bit on this package, to bring it up to date. I uploaded 4.1.0-0.1 to the archive moments ago. This is definitely an unusual NMU for me, as I refactored the package almost entirely. I hope that's OK. I basically ran across into a number of issues and it would be much more difficult for me to debug them using so antiquated packaging standards and tooling (e.g. it wasn't even using dh), than it was to just bring it forward to 2023 and then work from there. I tried to be considerate and went with as much of a standard packaging as possible, and left a bunch of comments. I also filed a bunch of upstream issues¹ to raise everything that is an upstream issue, and left breadcrumbs across debian/ to point to these bugs. I'll monitor the BTS for any issues in the short-term, but not the long-term: I am not stepping up to (co)maintain this. This is also why I did not follow the salvaging process. Therefore, I'm leaving this bug open for either Luca or anyone else that decides to step up. Hopefully the work I did today is going to make this a much easier endeavour :) Regards, Faidon 1: https://github.com/pbiering/ipv6calc/issues/created_by/paravoid
