Bug#1133068: engauge-digitizer

[Andreas Tille]

Source: engauge-digitizer
Version: 12.1+ds.1-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: 1116669 at bugs.debian.org, 1044905 at bugs.debian.org, Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>, Tobias Winchen <tobias at winchen.de>, Stuart Prescott <stuart at debian.org>, Package Salvaging Team <team+salvage at tracker.debian.org>

Hi,

As suggested by Scott in bug #1116669 I would be interested in helping
with engauge-digitizer, following the Package Salvaging procedure
outlined in the Developers Reference[1].  From what I see, the package
seems to meet the criteria for this process, and I'd like to support
keeping it maintained in Debian. As the Salvage process suggests, here
is a list of the criteria that I believe apply:

  - Bugs filed against the package do not have answers from the
    maintainer.
  - Upstream has released several versions, but despite there being
    a bug entry asking for it, it has not been packaged.
  - There are QA issues with the package.

I agree with Scott the package would be a great addition to the Science
team, and I took the liberty to create the Salsa repository here[2]. If
you choose not to accept the ITS, I'd be more than happy to help you
move it to another location, such as debian/, or wherever you prefer. My
goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to join the team. I'd
also be delighted to assist in adding you as a team member if you could
share your Salsa login.

This package was highlighted in the Bug of the Day[3] initiative, which
aims to introduce newcomers to manageable tasks and guide them through
the workflow to solve them. The focus of this initiative is on migrating
packages to Salsa, as it's a great way to help newcomers become familiar
with a consistent Git-based workflow.

Kind regards
    Andreas.

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/engauge-digitizer
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks


-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'buildd-unstable'), (50, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.19.6+deb14+1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE:de
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled