[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Upstream Efforts

[Guido Günther]

Hi Chris,
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 10:01:14AM -0400, Chris Talbot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I attempted again to contact the upstream developers and did not
> recieve a response. Please see my message from Feb 24, 2021:
> 
> https://lists.ofono.org/hyperkitty/list/ofono@ofono.org/thread/HFGZCER3I6G52SPSG44OC4KTHDO2ZEC6/
> 
> As such, does it make the most sense to keep this as a fork? As far as
> I can tell, the original mmsd has been abandoned.
> 
> As another note, I reformatted the repository a bit. "Master" has the
> most up to date version of mmsd:
> https://source.puri.sm/kop316/mmsd/
> 
> And the Debian packaging is here:
> https://source.puri.sm/kop316/mmsd/-/tree/debian/modemmanager/latest
> 
> I am still keeping the upstream patches seperate, but I am wondering
> what the best course of action is at this point.

I'd go about it like this:

- package 'upstream' mmsd for Debian and make it go into Debian. This
  usually takes some time due to NEW processing
- Once that passed depending on upstream feedback it would be either the
  point in time to take over upsream maintenance of mmsd *or* add your
  patches in `debian/patches`.

Does that make sense?
Cheers,
 -- Guido


> 
> Thank you!
> 
> -- 
> Respectfully,
> Chris Talbot
> 
> 
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