Hi Mark, On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 03:14:14PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > Please do not NMU, I want what's curently there to propagate to testing > before spending more time on the cross build stuff.
Your upload migrated. What makes you think that you will find time for cross building soonish? That seems questionable to me given that you did not find that time in the past two years. I also recognize that you have taken up the important task of maintaining linux-next. Thank you very much! Still, I doubt that it helps with having more time for zlib. I think it is perfectly fine for you not to spend time on cross building. That is explicitly granted to you by the Debian constitution. But then, please do not block others from doing the work. Regarding version control of zlib (conversation on #1127743). I can relate to the feeling of git not adding much. Inspecting the history of a project (for regressions) is a key use case. I also agree that maintaining debian/patches with the most common patches-unapplied workflow can be cumbersome. Did you consider using a patches-applied workflow such as dgit? That would allow you just commit patches and use merges for packaging. I note that this is not very popular in Debian as a whole, but still more useful than no VCS at all and maybe worth the effort to you. Helmut
