Hi Andre, thank you for the quick response.
Am Wed, Sep 09, 2026 at 07:47:32PM +0200 schrieb Andre Noll: > > Can you please clarify whether you want to orphan this (and the tfortune) > > package? I'm reading the "Debian just lost a contributor" as == "I do not > > intend to maintain this package any more". > > I'm still willing to maintain the tfortune and lopsub code, OK, that is upstream. > i.e. everything except the debian/ directories, Yep, that's Debian maintenance. So you do not want to stay the Maintainer of the Debian packaging. This is what I wanted to know and your statement is the permission to officially orphan the Debian packaging. Thank you, this is the helpful information I was seeking for. > and I'm happy to work on features and bugs > that affect *users* of both packages. Yep, that's upstream work and its nice you are doing so. > It's just that I won't spend time on > the Debian maintenance any more, including RFS, uploads, CI, lintian, salsa > and all that. Understood. This will be taken over by Debian QA team then. > My attempt to get familiar with these workflows was both time > consuming and fruitless, and I won't continue this frustrating experience. Fair enough - even if I'm a bit sorry to hear this anyway. > > I admit I'm sorry that you made this bad experience with Debian and > > you are kindly invited to come back again. > > No reason to be sorry, it's not your fault. I did not understood it the way that it would be my fault. I simply like to onboard newcomers. But well, your status update is very helpful to let others continue. > I've resurrected the tfortune web page and re-enabled the git repo, so feel > free to do whatever it takes to make the bots happy. But please keep me out > of the loop unless the code itself needs to be changed. ACK. All the best Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de
