[pkg-lynx-maint] lynx migration to salsa

Andreas Metzler ametzler at bebt.de
Sun Feb 11 12:07:57 UTC 2018


On 2018-02-11 Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:
> Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> lynx' git repository is still on salsa. Do we need a separate lynx-team
>> or can it just go to "debian" (the successor of alioth's collab-maint)?

> Thanks for bringing this up.

> IIRC the collab-maint replacement is (strictly) only for DDs and since
> we have three non-DDs in the team, we should probably continue to use
> a dedicated team for that.

> Will do the conversion and create a "lynx-team" team on Salsa.

Thanks.

> > Will the list be migrated?

> I'm sure, a lists.debian.org list would be overkill, but a migration
> to the lists.alioth.d.o replacement server is probably easy.

> I though wonder: Do we really need it? Doesn't lynx at packages.debian.org
> suffice? Can we then use lynx at packages.debian.org in the Maintainer
> field or would that cause an endless mail loop?

> A quick grep revealed that quite some teams are using that already, so
> I assume, there's no mail loop involved:

> → fgrep -h @packages.debian.org /var/lib/apt/lists/*Sources | sort -u
[...]

I did not know that worked already. Given that this is just for a single
package I agree that a list is not necessary.

cu Andreas
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