Hi Andreas On Mon, Aug 31, 13:57, Andreas Tille wrote
> given that we once worked together nicely with the ball package in > Debian Med I'm guessing you are fine with a NMU of liblopsub. I > followed the rule to upload to DELAYED/15 anyway to give you sufficient > time to insist. You are confusing me with someone else, as I've never worked with the ball package in Debian Med. > I noticed that your private repository contained changelog entries > pretending releases of a new upstream version but these never have > reached the Debian mirrors. Right. I proposed a way forward, but got no reply from the any of the Debian people involved. See Bug#1086623. Due to this bug, both tfortune and lopsub were removed from testing on July 26th. Given this and the fact that I already spent way too much time on an issue that should take five minutes to resolve, I decided to not invest further time on Debian integration issues. IOW, Debian just lost a contributor. In fact, I already removed the tfortune web page and its git repo, continuing development non-publicly. This is why the vcs tracker complains. The only reason the lopsub repo and web page are still online is that other projects of mine (see the link in the signature below) depend on it. I'm planning to remove the "debian" branch of lopsub, though, because it is not needed to build the package from source. I might reconsider this decision if somebody volunteers to act as the Debian maintainer for both tfortune and lopsub. This person's job would be to maintain the debian/ directory to improve the integration with the Debian infrastructure, to upload new versions, and to coordinate non-Debian related changes with me. If nobody is willing to do this work, the packages should probably get removed. Thanks Andre -- Max Planck Institute for Biology Tel: (+49) 7071 601 829 Max-Planck-Ring 5, 72076 Tübingen, Germany https://people.tuebingen.mpg.de/maan/
