[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#668996: Still intent on adopting bzr-gtk?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Axel!

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 01:17:49PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Jelmer Vernooij wrote on Sun, 11 Aug 2013 15:26:58 +0000:
> > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 06:43:50PM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > Hi Jos?,
> > > 
> > > You expressed interest in taking over maintenance of bzr-gtk
> > > almost a year ago. Would you still like to adopt it?
> > 
> > Since I haven't heard back from Jose, bzr-gtk FTBFS, it has no active
> > upstream
> 
> There seems a newer upstream release, 0.104.0, from April 2012
> according to https://launchpad.net/bzr-gtk. Not sure if that would
> help against the FTBFS -- at least the changelog doesn't seem to
> mention something in that direction.

Yeah, that release won't help with this FTBFS (note that I did that upstream
release).  The FTBFS should be fairly easy to fix though.

> > and has been owned by the QA team for a while now, I'm going to
> > request its removal from the archive.
> 
> I already thought about that, too. From a QA point of view it's
> probably the best.
> 
> Since the package bzr-gtk itself is maintained in bzr (according to
> the still present Vcs-* headers), it would need someone who is
> familiar with bzr to fix the outstanding issues even if they
> themselves may not need bzr knowledge. (At least the fact that it's
> maintained in bzr holds me back from having a closer look.)
I don't think that's an unreasonable situation for a package that's inherently
related to bzr. :-)

Even with a QA upload now, I doubt this package would have a long life in the
archive unless somebody steps up to take over upstream maintenance.

I filed a RM request here a while ago:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=719658

Cheers,

Jelmer