[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1103612: ITS: medicalterms

[Soren Stoutner]

Manuel,

On Saturday, April 19, 2025 9:18:05 AM Mountain Standard Time Manuel 
Guerra wrote:
> Package: medicalterms
> Version: 20230905-1
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: Debian Med Packaging
> Team<debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org>, Soren
> Stoutner<soren at debian.org>
 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I would like to salvage the medicalterms package to fix the
> following bug:
 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1020475
> 
> This has been open for a while without response, and I would like to
> see it fixed for the Trixie release.
 
> I also plan to make myself and Soren Stoutner the package uploaders,
> add compatibility for BDIC dictionaries and update the
> standards-version from 4.6.2.
 
This package doesn’t seem as abandoned as some of the other 
dictionaries we have salvaged.  The last upload was by the uploader 
and was less than two years ago (packages like this often don’t change 
much).  If they are open to it we might just want to prepare an MR 
that implements shipping the binary .bdic format.

That being said, the previous six uploads before the last one was by a 
team member instead of an uploader, and nobody has responded to the 
bug report you referenced, including to an offer for a patch.  So, if 
the uploader or a member of the team responds with an offer to 
integrate a patch that would be preferable.  But if there is no 
response, I am fine with salvaging the package and adding ourselves as 
uploaders.  I think it is always best for each package to have someone 
as an uploader who responds to bug reports in a timely manner.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren at debian.org
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