[15:09] <teward> MOTUs: a question.  Is there any precedent for 'diverging' from Debian temporarily to update a Universe package, until such time Debian catches up?
[15:29] <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.
[15:30] <rbasak> teward: however, you're on the hook for looking after the package until it is in sync again if you upload that.
[15:41] <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 it needs some TLC and the packaging is out of date in Debian too (wrong Vcs-Git, wrong homepage, outdated standards, not lintian clean...)
[15:43] <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
[15:48] <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)
[15:50] <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)
[16:21] <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)
[20:07] <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.
[20:11] <Unit193> (Scorpi on OFTC)
[20:12] <Unit193> ...And freenode, idle time of 40 minutes.
[20:12] <Unit193> teward: ↑
[21:06] <Unit193> teward: Err, those depends that you added should likely be recommends...