Looking for help with a recently removed package, kcollectd

[Antonio Russo]

Thanks for looking at the package!  I've corrected the missing build dependencies,
and cleaned up the debian directory a bit, as you suggested.

I've changed the maintainer to be Qt/KDE, and changed my role to uploader (and
I've added you there as well, is that appropriate?).

The uploaded package was built by pbuilder.

Thanks,
Antonio

On 9/1/19 6:44 AM, Sandro Knauß wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I can sponser you. But I can't build kcollectd pacakge from salsa[0]. It looks 
> like you missing some dependencies from building.
> 
> Feel free to ping me, if you have any questions and, when the package is ready 
> to review.
> 
> * you can remove the debian/patches directory completly, when there are no 
> patches to apply.
> 
> Additionally you list yourself as Maintainer, that is fine. Do you want to be 
> part of Qt/KDE team and shift the maintainership to Qt/KDE team? This gives 
> other members of the team the possibility to touch the package and maybe to a 
> release, if needed...
> 
> hefee
> 
> [0] https://salsa.debian.org/aerusso-guest/kcollectd/
> 
> On Sonntag, 1. September 2019 00:54:16 CEST Antonio Russo wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am looking for a new home for kcollectd, a tool for viewing log
>> information, that was recently removed from unstable because it lacked a Qt
>> 5 port [1]. I have ported that package and I've taken over the upstream
>> (which has been dead for years) [2].  I'm offering to maintain the Debian
>> package, and I've been directed here, at the suggestion of another DD,
>> because this community may have interest in helping out with this package.
>>
>> Of note, I spoke with Scott Kitterman, who requested the removal of
>> kcollectd, and he said he knows of no other reason the package should be
>> removed.
>>
>> The updated packaging fixes several outstanding bugs, and makes the Debian
>> lintian report much cleaner (one is, I believe, a false positive, and the
>> other is due to lack of package tests which aren't really relevant to this
>> kind of UI software).
>>
>> Is anyone here willing to sponsor this package, offer any criticism of
>> the package, or further direct me to a place where I might get such help?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Antonio Russo
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/935223
>> [2] https://gitlab.com/aerusso/kcollectd
>> [3] https://bugs.debian.org/935485
>