Hei! I am reading the bug reports but except for the first few times, when there was a "mentor", my feeling from the communication with uploaders was that my work on the package is not welcome. I had the impression that I am being met either with silence or with replies akin to "don't care about what you write". So I was passive.
I am not sure how xfig and fig2sxd are related to photography, if that is what "phototools" should suggest. Or is it just the maintainer group called "phototools" that you think of? I agree that separating program and packaging is a good idea. I can remove the packaging, i.e. the debian directory, from the upstream repo(s). Cheers Alexander On 17 June 2026 09:21:37 UTC, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: >Source: fig2sxd >Version: 0.23-1 >Severity: important >X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected], >[email protected], Debian PhotoTools Maintainers ><[email protected]>, Package Salvaging Team ><[email protected]> > >Hi, > >I would be interested in helping with fig2sxd, following the Package >Salvaging procedure outlined in the Developers Reference[1]. From what I >see, the package seems to meet the criteria for this process, and I'd >like to support keeping it maintained in Debian. As the Salvage process >suggests, here is a list of the criteria that I believe apply: > > - Bugs filed against the package do not have answers from the > maintainer. > - There are QA issues with the package. > >I believe the package would be fit into the Phototools team, and I >took the liberty to create the Salsa repository here[2]. If you choose >not to accept the ITS, I'd be more than happy to help you move it to >another location, such as debian/, or wherever you prefer. My goal is to >make it as easy as possible for you to join the team. I'd also be >delighted to assist in adding you as a team member if you could share >your Salsa login. > >I noticed that you are upstream of this software and maintained the >Debian packaging inside the upstream repository. It has turned out that >this might be not an optimal way to connect to the Debian community. >Thus my offer to migrate the packaging to Salsa, which simplifies access >of Debian developers regarding sponsoring your package, run Salsa CI as >a QA means etc. I hope you like this - if not feel free to merge my >changes fixing the open bugs, specifically the patch for the Makefile >which you might like to take over to your upstream code. > >Kind regards > Andreas. > >[1] >https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging >[2] https://salsa.debian.org/debian-phototools-team/fig2sxd >[3] >https://salsa.debian.org/debian-phototools-team/fig2sxd/-/blob/master/debian/patches/buildflags.patch?ref_type=heads > > >-- System Information: >Debian Release: forky/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'buildd-unstable'), (50, 'unstable'), (5, > 'experimental') >Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > >Kernel: Linux 7.0.9+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) >Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN >Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not >set >Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash >Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) >LSM: AppArmor: enabled
