[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Upstream Efforts

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:00:58AM -0400, Chris Talbot wrote:
> Good Morning,
> 
> I agree that this is a reasonable course of action. To make sure I
> understand: should I change this bug to packaging upstream mmsd, or
> should I close this bug and open a new bug to package upstream mmsd?

Reusing this one is fine i think.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> I am fine doing either one, but I want to make sure I do the correct
> one.
> 
> -- 
> Respectfully,
> Chris Talbot
> 
> On Mon, 2021-03-22 at 08:40 +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> > 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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