Hi Sébastien, > For the last couple of years, I’ve been the most active member of the > Debian Common Lisp Team. However, it’s becoming increasingly clear that > my involvement is now going to be significantly reduced (lack of time, > change of focus).
first of all, thank you so much for your (mostly lonesome) work during the last years! > So this email is essentially a call for volunteers. I will not > disappear entirely, so I can certainly act as an adviser during a > transition period. In particular, I would explain (or document) a few > practices that I’ve been following so far (regarding version numbering > and autopkgtests of CL libraries in particular). I would be happy to take over some of the tasks and I would appreciate your documenting the practices, as you mentioned, even it is only in a 'bullet list' style. > The most immediate task would be to update SBCL. I’ve given a try to > packaging version 2.2.2, but got across a problem I’ve reported > upstream (left unanswered so far): > https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl/+bug/1964511 > Maybe this problem can be worked around by putting the call to sb- > ext:set-sbcl-source-location in /etc/sbclrc, instead of trying to > modify the Lisp image at build time (though the latter is obviously > better). I will start by looking into this. Thanks again Kambiz
