[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] Maintaining libimobiledevice and related packages

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:58:23PM +0100, Tino Mettler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in the last few days I worked with the libimobiledevice package and it
> looks like it could get a bit more love from its maintainers.  My
> impression is that the same is true for the other packages maintained
> by pkg-gtkpod-devel.  Even critical breakage is unhandled over months,
> NMUs got lost and lintian and the automatic QA tests are somewhat unhappy,
> too.

Yes please. I've only been reluctantly maintaining these packages because nobody
has taken them off my hands.

> I use libimobiledevice as well as ifuse/usbmuxd with 2 iDevices and I think
> that won't change in the near future.  I read that Chow Loong Jin
> doesn't use iDevices which makes the package hard to test. So I offer
> my help with maintaining those packages.  As my key is in the Debian
> keyring, I'd be glad to get upload permissions for the packages
> mentioned above.

Hmm, if you're a DD you'd already have upload permissions, so I'm guessing
you're a DM? Let's go through a few sponsored package uploads first, then I'll
look into getting you upload permissions.

> My plan is to prepare a new libimobiledevice package to fix #840931
> (which I already have a sponsoring offer for), and libplist to fix
> #851196 (both for Stretch), as well as a lot of cleanups suggested by
> the several automatic QA tests for the time after the Stretch release. 
> If you would like to have some insight in my packaging work before
> granting upload permissions, I'd offer to prepare a new version of each
> of the packages and send it to you for review.

Sure.

-- 
Kind regards,
Loong Jin
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