RKWard in Debian - addendum

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Addendum:

I now found Dylan's mail - in my SPAM folder. Sorry for not checking,
sooner. Again, I'm more than happy to hand over maintenance!

Regards
Thomas

On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 22:42:28 +0200
Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:03:25 -0700
> Scarlett Moore <sgmoore at kde.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > Hi Thomas,
> > Can you please instead give maintenance to the entire KDE packaging
> > team: Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers
> > <debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org>  
> 
> I'll be *very* happy to hand over packaging to the debian-qt-kde team.
> Not sure, if there is any specific action required for this on my
> behalf. In case I need to make a new upload changing maintainership,
> I've put the sponsor of the last few uploads (Lisandro) in CC
> (although I see you've already participated in the discussion, so I
> assume you're subscribed).
> 
> > Also we need the following answered:
> > 1) is he using some local repository for packaging? if so, let's
> > import it
> > 2) no repository? then we need to agree whether we want a
> > debian-only repository, or a gbp one; based on that, I can create
> > either, and push it
> > 
> > 
> > See thread here:
> > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-kde-talk/2020-April/003019.html  
> 
> The situation is somewhat messy, indeed, I'm afraid. Up until
> recently, the packaging was managed inside our upstream repo at 
> 
> https://cgit.kde.org/rkward.git/tree/debian?id=db9a55efb0a8da429b8ff8385d1051aad568dea5
> 
> This was then removed (perhaps a bit prematurely) at
> 
> https://cgit.kde.org/rkward.git/commit/?id=a622376242962cdc8f63898f4df3df90322075bd
> 
> because that is what Scarlett copied into
> https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/extras/rkward as the initial
> revision.
> 
> Unfortunately, the story does not end there, because I have prepared
> (and Lisandro sponsored) one more patch release
> (https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/r/rkward/rkward_0.7.0b-2_changelog)
> in order to fix an FTBFS, as I failed to reach Scarlett in a timely
> manner. This latest release is not reflected in any revision control
> system, as far as I am aware.
> 
> DO NOTE that the debian-directory is the current upstream repo is
> *not* the official debian packaging, and does not share its commit
> history but rather it is aimed at providing nightly builds at
> Launchpad PPAs. The path of the official packaging was
> debian-official.
> 
> As a further hint, note that several of the current lintian problems.
> (as well as the 0.7.0b-2 patches) have been addressed in the latest
> upstream release. So if you are looking into fixing those, consider
> packaging 0.7.1, instead.
> 
> I hope this clears up the situation well enough. Please keep me in CC
> in case of further questions, as I am not subscribed.
> 
> Regards
> Thomas
> 
> > 
> > Thank you!
> > Scarlett
> > 
> >   
>