Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I request assistance with maintaining the libidn package.
Libidn is an old library for internationalized domain names processing,
being phased out in favor of libidn2 that supports the new standards. I
am upstream author of both libraries, and have also been packaging them
for Debian.
I cannot seem to make maintaining the Debian packages of libidn a
priority, and this has been the case for several years, so I'd like to
ask for help.
I have started to move the packaging to Salsa and package the newly
released upstream version 1.36, but have failed to complete it due to
shared library symbol versioning changes and just the amount of lintian
issues coming up. I believe it is a good starting point for anyone
taking over, but starting from scratch is fine too.
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libidn
Feel free to push any changes to a branch in the repo and upload to
experimental and discuss the process forward in this bug report. I
suggest responding with a ping to this bug report to indicate you are
starting work, in the remote chance that more than one person is looking
at this report at the same time, to enable coordination.
I'm here to help review changes and comment and can still occasionally
make uploads and improve packaging, but more manpower is needed to
primarily get 1.36 uploaded into Debian and be more responsive to
security bugs and other duties.
Thanks,
Simon
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