Re: Freecad is looking for new maintainers

[Graham Inggs]

On 26 May 2018 at 22:43, Sebastian Kuzminsky  wrote:
> Thank you for the offer, but I think I can't be an uploader, because I'm
> not a DM/DD.  I'll be content contributing via commits on salsa for now.

Sure you can. :)
Uploaders are just the co-maintainers of the package [1].
The Maintainer field in this case is:
Debian Science Maintainers 


[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#s-maintainer

Re: Freecad is looking for new maintainers

[Sebastian Kuzminsky]

On 05/26/2018 02:50 AM, Graham Inggs wrote:
> I recently pushed some changes to Freecad on Salsa [1].
> I'd like to update the Uploaders field and upload soon, unless one of
> the prospective uploaders wishes to make any other changes, in which
> case I am happy to sponsor.
> 
> Sebastian Kuzminsky, I take it I can add you as an uploader?
> Filippo Rusconi, are you in too?

Thank you for the offer, but I think I can't be an uploader, because I'm
not a DM/DD.  I'll be content contributing via commits on salsa for now.


-- 
Sebastian Kuzminsky

AppStream file to store upstream metadata: registry and bibliography references

[Dylan Aïssi]

Hi all,

I started discussions with AppStream devs to add new tags in the AppStream
file. This file contains upstream metadata and it is cross distro in
contrary to our d/upstream/metadata.

If you are using the d/u/metadata to store bibliography references or
registry refences you can take part of discussions here [1-2].

Currently, they agree to add registry references but still need to find the
tag name. Concerning the bibliography references there is no consensus but
I still think from a scientific point of view it could be useful to have a
bibliography in this file and in the software center.

The idea is to move some information (or all?) from
debian/upstream/metadata to the AppStream which is cross distrib and
ideally maintained by upstream. Ok we already have some troubles to get
manpages from upstream so an AppStream file is a dream :-). But at least if
upstream wants to provide metadata, there is a possibility with this file.

So, if you are interested (or not :-), you can go there [1-2] to give your
point of view.

Best,
Dylan

[1] https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/189
[2] https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/190

Re: Freecad is looking for new maintainers

[Graham Inggs]

I recently pushed some changes to Freecad on Salsa [1].
I'd like to update the Uploaders field and upload soon, unless one of
the prospective uploaders wishes to make any other changes, in which
case I am happy to sponsor.

Sebastian Kuzminsky, I take it I can add you as an uploader?
Filippo Rusconi, are you in too?


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/freecad/commits/master

Re: Freecad is looking for new maintainers

[Rebecca N. Palmer]

I see that gdal has moved ahead to 2.3 in Sid, I'm guessing this means opencv 
needs to be rebuilt (potentially with API changes...).


It now has been: https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/gdal-2.3.0.html