| teward | MOTUs: a question. Is there any precedent for 'diverging' from Debian temporarily to update a Universe package, until such time Debian catches up? | 15:09 |
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| rbasak | teward: completely acceptable | 15:29 |
| rbasak | teward: an email to Debian BTS explaining and pointing to the work is nice - then they can pick it up as soon as their archive opens again. | 15:29 |
| rbasak | teward: however, you're on the hook for looking after the package until it is in sync again if you upload that. | 15:30 |
| teward | rbasak: considering I use the Universe package daily, I'd be happy to maintain this. I just sent an ITS: bug into Debian as well indicating that I would like to salvage the package in Debian and either become maintainer or become co-maintainer if the MIA team determines the maintainer is still 'active' enough to maintain the package | 15:41 |
| teward | it needs some TLC and the packaging is out of date in Debian too (wrong Vcs-Git, wrong homepage, outdated standards, not lintian clean...) | 15:41 |
| teward | rbasak: the package in question is a GUI app, xca, which I use to manage internal CA certificate systems for clients, myself, and my employers lol | 15:43 |
| teward | and it NEEDS some care lol | 15:43 |
| teward | rbasak: once the ITS is up on Debian BTS I'll add in a note about the divergence downstream until the package is either (1) updated in Debian or, (2) I gain access/maintainer roles for it. The tricky part here is that the maintainer seems MIA too, or at least way too inactive to reliably maintain this | 15:48 |
| teward | (my opinion) | 15:48 |
| teward | i'll prep a divergent package for Eoan then, so we can at least have it up to date in later releases down here. (Though I did this in a PPA already xD) | 15:50 |
| teward | rbasak: Universe package in question has been uploaded to eoan-proposed - happy to maintain the xca package until Debian catches up or the Salvage process is successful. | 16:21 |
| rbasak | Thanks! | 16:21 |
| teward | (in which case I'll have upload control for it in Debian too xD) | 16:21 |
| Unit193 | Careful about that one, I believe he goes off of git tags so last time I got it sponsored in Ubuntu it had to go for a fakesync. Last I knew the guy was taking care of that well enough, just sometimes a bit behind. | 20:07 |
| Unit193 | (Scorpi on OFTC) | 20:11 |
| Unit193 | ...And freenode, idle time of 40 minutes. | 20:12 |
| Unit193 | teward: ↑ | 20:12 |
| Unit193 | teward: Err, those depends that you added should likely be recommends... | 21:06 |
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