[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#979379: ITS: src:gnupg2

[Christoph Biedl]

Package: src:gnupg2
Version: 2.2.20-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: Debian GnuPG Maintainers <pkg-gnupg-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>, Eric Dorland <eric at debian.org> 

Greetings,

as described in the developers' reference, I hereby declare my intention
to salvage the gnugp2 package, with the primary goal of having a recent
upstream version in the upcoming release; and long-term to assert it
will be kept in shape, by (without a particular preference) joining the
team or or taking over maintainership.

According to the "(conservative) criteria" list found in the Debian
wiki:

| A package is eligible for salvaging if it is in clear need of some
| love and care, i.e. there are open bugs,

Lots.

| missing upstream releases,

Several. Debian has 2.20, uploaded in March. Upstream is at 2.26.

There was a "new upstream version availabe" bug report in December 2020:
<https://bugs.debian.org/977863>. This also lists features that are
interesting to have.

| or there is work needed from a quality-assurance perspective;

Possibly yes.

| AND there is the need to upload the package to deal with these issues;

Yes.

| AND at least one of these criteria applies:

|   There is no visible activity regarding the package for six months, OR

Yes: Last upload, also commit to salsa was in March 2020:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/gnupg2/-/commits/debian/master

|   A previous NMU was not acknowledged, and a bug justifying another
|   NMU is pending for one month 1, OR

No

|   The last upload was an NMU and there was no maintainer upload
|   within one year, OR

No

|    Bugs exist for more than one major missing upstream version2 and
|    the first bug is older than one year, OR

No

|   The package blocks a sourceful transition for six months after a
|   transition bug was filed against the package in question.

No


Regards,

    Christoph


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.4.85 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnupg depends on:
ii  dirmngr         2.2.20-1
ii  gnupg-l10n      2.2.20-1
ii  gnupg-utils     2.2.20-1
ii  gpg             2.2.20-1
ii  gpg-agent       2.2.20-1
ii  gpg-wks-client  2.2.20-1
ii  gpg-wks-server  2.2.20-1
ii  gpgsm           2.2.20-1
ii  gpgv            2.2.20-1

gnupg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnupg suggests:
pn  parcimonie  <none>
pn  xloadimage  <none>

-- no debconf information

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