[Debian-med-packaging] Maintenance of OSCAR

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

On Saturday, 30 May 2026, Étienne Mollier wrote:

> Hi Edmundo, Hi Sergio,

Hi there,

Thanks for Cc'ing me.

> From Edmundo Carmona Antoranz:
>> I have been a user of OSCAR for a few years now and I see that it has
>> fallen behind a little bit on debian testing (OSCAR is at 1.5.x on
>> debian testing and OSCAR is already at 1.7.x).... I wonder if I could
>> help with the maintenance of this package given that I am one of its
>> end-users.
>
> Thanks for the notification!  It seems that upstream moved to a
> new repository in 2024 [1], but we (Debian Med) stuck to an
> older one [2] for the scanner of new upstream releases (uscan)
> [3].  I see other distributions [4] caught the new repository
> alright.
>
> [1]: https://gitlab.com/CrimsonNape/OSCAR-code
> [2]: https://gitlab.com/pholy/OSCAR-code/
> [3]: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/oscar/-/blob/master/debian/watch?ref_type=heads
> [4]: https://repology.org/project/oscar/packages

This is not the first time it happened, unfortunately.  I believe last
time upstream also failed to announce this switch (which, by the looks
of it, is effectively a fork) on their README.  Apologies for missing
that.

>> I have _some_ experience with the process of maintaining a package as
>> I have added packaging to at least one of my personal projects
>> (https://github.com/eantoranz/gitmod/tree/main/packages) so I would
>> not be starting from scratch (though I bet I will have some learning
>> to carry out).
>> 
>> Let me know what you think.
>
> Sergio Durigan Junior is the main uploader of oscar and
> intervened on the packaging repository last month, so perhaps
> you will wish to coordinate for intervention on the package.
> The package is also under Debian Med team maintenance, so if you
> wish to carry modifiations, you may want to peruse the team's
> policy manual [5] and liaise with the rest of the team on the
> Debian Med mailing list [6].
>
> [5]: https://med-team.pages.debian.net/policy/
> [6]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/

I'd be totally OK if Edmundo would like to help with the package.

Edmundo, since you implied that you'd need some time to learn the ropes
I'm going to go ahead now and update the package to the latest version,
but please feel free to propose changes to it whenever you feel
convenient.

Thanks a lot for the ping.

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