Bug#918242: ITS: lmms

[Israel]

Hi,
I am not an actual maintainer of this package, I do not have any sort of
Debian official access.  I simply (like you) found a bug in LMMS years
ago (the desktop file stopped opening the app or something like that)
and brought the package up to speed, and fixed the debian folder to be
much more modern.

i would love for LMMS to get as much love as it can!!  I use the program
a lot and it is dear to my heart :D

On 1/4/19 10:57 AM, Ross Gammon wrote:
> Source: lmms
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I am checking whether you would be happy for me to salvage the lmms package:
> https://wiki.debian.org/PackageSalvaging
>
> Lmms seems to need some love, and I would like to try and fix the issue that
> lmms is not co-installable with calf-plugins.
>
> Lmms seems at first glance to fit several salvaging criteria (I think):
> 1. There is an RC bug that needs fixing, and lmms has been removed from testing
> (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=897806).
> 2. There is no visible activity regarding the package for six months (At least
> on the PTS - the Vcs points to Alioth which gives a "Not Found" page).
> 2. A previous NMU was not acknowledged, and a bug justifying another NMU is
> pending for one month (there is an RC bug that needs fixing causing lmms to be
> removed from testing in August 2018).
> 3. The last upload was an NMU and there was no maintainer upload within one
> year (the last upload was an NMU on 2018-03-18 - the last maintainer upload was
> in 2016).
>
> However, to be fair to  Javier Serrano Polo, a new Vcs has been created on
> Salsa:
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu-pkg-team/lmms
> And he has been recently adding information to some of the bugs, including
> asking for help to upload something.
>
> The next upstream version (Version 1.1.90) could be packaged.
> Also, the latest upstream release candidate (1.2.0rc7) could be uploaded to
> experimental, so that if 1.2.0 is released before the Buster freeze, it could
> be very quickly moved to unstable.
>
> I am wondering if it would be a good idea to move lmms into the Debian
> Multimedia team where I could help with the maintenance.
>
> Would this be okay with you all (Javier, Israel & Petter)?
>
> Alternatively, can I help with sponsoring an upload?
>
> I will wait the required 21 days before taking action.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ross
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>   APT prefers bionic-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'bionic-updates'), (500, 'bionic-security'), (500, 'bionic'), (100, 'bionic-backports')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-43-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled


-- 
Regards