Hi Alexander, thank you for your prompt response.
Am Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 03:15:00PM +0000 schrieb Alexander Bürger: > 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. Sorry about the bad experience. > 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 confirm that "photo" is probably not the most fitting name. Its a team that maintains quite a number of image processing tools and was the closest I've found. Otherwise we can also migrate the packaging to the Debian team (=everything that does not fit into a specific team). Finally its a suggestion I made and if you are in doubt I can move the repository. I just think its sensible to migrate to Salsa which provides better chances for sponsoring (hopefully). > 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). It would be great if you could create a login on salsa.debian.org so I could add you to the repository. Kind regards and thank you for your cooperation Andreas. > 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 -- https://fam-tille.de
