On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 08:41:18PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > 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
I tend to batch up a bunch of stuff approximately once per release cycle to collect all the random churn in debehlper and whatever, or when there's a new upstream release (as just happened), this fell off the list prior to the last release largely due to the difficulty I was having understanding the patch. > important task of maintaining linux-next. Thank you very much! Still, I > doubt that it helps with having more time for zlib. I do linux-next as part of my work, I do Debian things outside work. > 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. Clearly explained patches would probably help more here than repeatedly chasing; TBH whenever I spend time replying to the chasing that mostly makes me remember that I've looked at the issue which probably isn't what you're hoping for. > 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. I'm not overly enthustiastic about spending time on anything that hasn't already achieved a degree of popularity, some of the prior efforts were a bit early adopter and burned me a bit.
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
