Hello Scott,

I don't use it, but seems an interested project. I can work on it, but
it would be great if you have a maintainer that already know the project.

Cheers,
Emmanuel

On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 05:23:53PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> The gtts package is, at least nominally, maintained by the Debian Python 
> Team, 
> but has no human uploader.  As a practical matter, I think someone should 
> either adopt it (add themselves to uploaders) or we should formally orphan 
> the 
> package so we aren't pretending.
> 
> It has two rdepends:
> 
> Reverse-Depends
> ===============
> * dialect [amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips64el mipsel ppc64el]
> * mnemosyne
> 
> I personally track mnemosyne, even though it's not team maintained, because i 
> have an interest in the package.  I noticed it was going to be removed from 
> Testing because of a FTBFS bug in gtts, so I fixed gtts by updating it to the 
> current upstream release.  Looking at the upload history, it's been this way 
> for awhile.
> 
> One consequence of it not being actually maintained is that we released 
> bookworm with a non-functional gtts package (see #1030290).  If anyone had 
> been paying attention to the package, they would have noticed that should 
> have 
> been an RC bug (it is now) and it would have either been fixed or removed.
> 
> The package is now in not awful shape in Unstable (and barring surprises 
> Testing later today), but it could still use some work.  The major immediate 
> task for a potential maintainer would be working with the Stable Release 
> Managers to get bookworm fixed.
> 
> If you're interested in the package and wiling to watch over it, please let 
> me 
> know via email.  If I don't hear back, I'll assume no one is interested and 
> orphan it in a week or two.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott K


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