On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 11:06:03AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 07:04:49PM -0800, James Montgomery wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > I saw your RFA for stunnel4 and I am interested in adopting the package. > > I've previously helped with other Debian packages and would like to step up > > to > > maintainership with this one. > > That's great :) Just bear in mind that stunnel packaging is a bit more > complex than some of the other Debian packages out there. > > For instance, there is one item that I have been putting off for years: > renaming the package itself (both binary and source) to "stunnel". > The "stunnel4" name is an unfortunate legacy of the now distant past, > when stunnel migrated from version 3 to version 4; we have been at > version 5 for many years now, and I have put off renaming the package > mainly for reasons of backwards incompatibility, but it is high time now. > Actually I think I will start that process in the coming day or two; > I say "start that process" because it will involve at least one, possibly > two trips through the NEW queue. > > > I've been looking at the current packaging and I have a few initial > > improvements > > in mind to align it with current best practices: > > > > 1. Set "Priority: optional" in debian/control to satisfy Lintian. > > The removal of "Priority: optional" is in line with Policy 3.7.4, section > 5.6.6;
...of course I meant Policy versio 4.7.3 here :) > the Lintian version from Debian unstable will not warn about it, since this is > not a problem. "Priority: optional" is dpkg's default now, there is no need to > specify it explicitly. [snip] > But apart from that, it's great that you want to help, and actually > taking on a not-trivial package is a good way to learn how to handle > the not-trivial parts of Debian packaging :) I will be glad to help > with that. And of course I meant "non-trivial" here in both places, no idea what my fingers were thinking... G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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