[Pkg-julia-devel] ITA: libunwind -- library to determine the call-chain of a program

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 01:03:58PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Hi Adrian

Hi Graham,

> The "Debian Julia Team", namely Peter Colberg and myself, were discussing
> adopting libunwind [1].
> 
> Julia probably accounts for less than 10% of the installations of libunwind
> (by popcon), so I think it would be better if libunwind remained in
> collab-maint rather than moving to pkg-julia.
> 
> Would you be open to co-maintainers?  I'd be happy to be listed as an
> uploader.

I am not a fan of comaintainance for small packages, and the previous 
unmaintained state of libunwind was also caused by the package
having two uploaders whose latest uploads were 2005 and never.

Updating to 1.2.1, going through the bugs, check that everything works:
That's a few hours of one-time work, with run-coredump-unwind-mdi in
"make check" sometimes failing when I tried upstream 1.2.1 likely being
the biggest issue.

Afterwards it seems more like a few hours per year of work on the package.

If you want to adopt the package instead of me that's fine for me.

But putting random people who are not currently working on the package 
and likely won't do in the future to Uploaders brings no benefits and 
delays orphaning when the maintainer goes MIA. Fixing issues when the 
maintainer does not respond is already covered by the normal NMU rules.

> Regards
> Graham
>...

cu
Adrian

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