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Is there a particular process, etc. for changing the upstream source repository for long-inactive projects to a more active repository? It has been over 17 years since the last release of NQC via
<a href="https://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nqc/">https://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nqc/</a>, and it has been ~15 years without any apparent action on patches that have been submitted (c.f. the NQC patches under
<a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/bricxcc/patches/">https://sourceforge.net/p/bricxcc/patches/</a>). I get that people move on, so not faulting any upstream maintainers—grateful they left their work for others to tinker with.</div>
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My question is, can Debian packages based on long-inactive repositories like NQC be pointed to a new upstream repository? At least in certain respects, does this Debian repository of NQC (<a href="https://salsa.debian.org/debian-lego-team/nqc/">https://salsa.debian.org/debian-lego-team/nqc/</a>)
exist at least in part because the original upstream has been inactive?</div>
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As I started noticing some RCX-related resources beginning to disappear, I started collecting what I could before more began disappearing and have been posting them under the
<a href="https://github.com/BrickBot/">https://github.com/BrickBot/</a> organization (which is still a work in progress). Among those projects is NQC (<a href="https://github.com/BrickBot/nqc/">https://github.com/BrickBot/nqc/</a>). I'm not interested in
forking NQC and going in a different direction but just in continuing to maintain it in the spirit of the original project.</div>
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In that GitHub repo for BrickBot/nqc, I've incorporated the patches linked above and others, plus based on some work by GitHub user maehw, I've also incorporated support for building as a WebAssembly. Additionally, I have incorporated an automatic build setup
via GitHub Actions that uses "ubuntu-latest" as the OS for that job. Could this repository potentially assume the role of upstream repository for the Debian NQC package? I am very new to the world of Debian packaging but would be happy to assist as I can
from an "upstream" perspective.</div>
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Thank you.</div>
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