Bug#768532: ITA debmirror

[Thaddeus H. Black]

A new maintainer of mature software like debmirror never knows which
line of the existing code, a line that *looks* inelegant or pointless,
might actually fix some obscure bug from seven years ago for a guy
who (say) uses debmirror over AX.25 in Nepal.  One has to be careful
about that.

For this among other reasons, I do not plan to redesign the software,
but to maintain it in its current form.

There seems to exist a newer package named aptly.  I do not know much
about that, nor even if it conveniently does (or at all does) what
debmirror does.  Nevertheless, its developer seems enthusiastic enough;
so, if you should happen to require an overall redesign, then you might
investigate that package.



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Bug#768532: ITA: debmirror

[Thaddeus H. Black]

For reference, the bug report (with patch)
to which I referred yesterday was #787760.


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[Thaddeus H. Black]

That is, if you wish to help, let me know at t...@debian.org.
(E-mail to that other address won't reach me.)



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[Thaddeus H. Black]

I am hardly the ideal maintainer for this package.  Nevertheless,

  * I have used the package for years;
  * the package is implemented in Perl, a language with which
I am familiar and which I often use;
  * I have recently spent some hours to learn a little about
the package's software internals;
  * among the package's outstanding bug reports is one with
a patch by me;
  * the package has a not insignificant number of users;
  * the package has now been orphaned six months; and
  * no other maintainer seems to be stepping forward to adopt
the package.

So, I'll adopt it, at least for now, and we shall see how it goes.
If the adoption does not work out, then I'll orphan the package again,
and we'll be no worse off than we now are.

I miss former maintainers Frans Pop (deceased) and Joey Hess (retired),
two of my favorite DDs of all time.  Those were important DDs, giants
of Debian; whereas I am so unimportant a DD that (despite my having been
a DD ten years), 90 percent of the project's members have never heard
of me.  That's just as well, and I'll not fill Frans' or Joey's shoes;
but still, after the great have left, the less must carry on.

If you wish to help, let me know.



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[Maxime Chatelle]

Control: retitle -1 ITA: debmirror
Control: owner -1 x...@rxsoft.eu

Hi,

I will take care of this useful package and also of the upstream part.
Let me know if someone disapprove.

Regards,
-- 
Maxime Chatelle (xakz)
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