Hi, On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 11:30:11AM +0100, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > Il 21/11/19 12:18, mer...@debian.org ha scritto: > > New version of freehep-graphicsio is out (in 2014 [1]), and I would like > > to see it packaged. However, packaging of freehep-graphicsio is split in > > a dozen of source packages, and update maintaining this split would be > > tedious.
I havn't looked into this but for lots of source packages I'm using https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/maintenance-utilities/blob/master/routine-update Despite invented originally for R packages it works for any other packages I'm maintaining. So may be merging the sources is more work in the end compared to semi-automated upgrades. > > Maybe merging the source packages (retaining the upstream > > tarball integrity) would make sense? > I am not against this, but I think I would happily give away maintenance > of these packages. I never used them directly, just needed them as > GeoGebra dependencies. > > That said, before updating I would suggest to consider exactly what does > one expects from these packages: do we consider them useful in Debian in > themselves, or do we value them just as reverse dependencies (of > GeoGebra and figtree)? Freehep-graphicsio definitely rings a bell and yes, we need it for figtree. I have no idea how much use it is making from freehep-graphicsio but my guess is an upgrade is fine (if there are good reasons to spent time into it. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
