Bug#1037313: ITS: libconfig

[Jonathan McCrohan]

Hi Tobias,

On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 08:06:41AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> I'm intending to to salvage libconfig. If you are unaware of the ITS 
> procedure,
> see [1] for details.

Thanks for filing this bug. Please go ahead.

I unfortunately don't have the time to maintain libconfig these days, so feel
free to adopt the package if you are interested.

Regards,
Jon


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Bug#1037313: ITS: libconfig

[Tobias Frost]

Source: libconfig
Version: 1.5-0.4
Severity: important

Hi Jonathan,

I'm intending to to salvage libconfig. If you are unaware of the ITS procedure,
see [1] for details.

Eligibility for ITS: [2]

There is no visible maintainer acitvity on the package since 2017, the package 
is
NMU maintained since 2015 (currently 4 NMUs in a row)

One of my packages (where I'm upstream of too) could benefit from an updated 
libconfig,
for which a wishlist bug exists since 2017 (#869596), other users have also 
asked for an
update in that bug, so others would be happy to if there is a new versio in 
Debian.
Upstream fixed the SONAME problem mentioned in your reply to #869596 and has
released fixed versions (currently 1.7.3, released July 2021).

Additionally there are other unhandled bugs in the BTS, and #904857 is 
indirectly
asking for a new upstream version as well.

-- 
Cheers,
tobi

[1] 
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging


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