[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] libmpdclient/ncmpc in debian (was "MPD 0.21 in buster")

[kaliko]

Florian,

On 18/12/2018 00:24, Florian Schlichting wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 07:50:42PM +0100, kaliko wrote:
>> On 14/11/2018 16:24, kaliko wrote:
>>> On 14/11/2018 09:21, Max Kellermann wrote:
>> I rebased my changed on Sebastian repository:
>> 
>> https://salsa.debian.org/kaliko-guest/ncmpc 
>> https://salsa.debian.org/kaliko-guest/libmpdclient
>> 
> […] there's a new "package salvaging process" in Debian, and I just
> filed bugs #916729 and #916731 to document my intent to move
> libmpdclient and ncmpc into the mpd team. If nothing happens for
> three weeks, we can move forward and take over those packages.

Nice if we can move forward on this :)
I was not aware salvaging process was operational.

> […] Are you interested in polishing your repos a bit more? There are 
> a number of lintian warnings (especially if you switch on
> --pedantic)

I'll keep working on it then :)

> and I would prefer to have upstream and pristine-tar branches (along
> with the complete upstream source, not just the debian directory) in
> git - and possibly also the upstream git history: git-buildpackage
> has options to specify an upstream tag that gets merged into master
> along with the contents of the 'upstream' branch created from the
> tar.xz...

Alright, but I don't know how to convert the current git repo, adding gbp
branches (upstream, pristine, etc).
I'm not even sure it is feasible:

“There's currently no easy way to create the upstream-branch if you never had
the upstream sources as a single commit. Using gbp import-orig on such
repositories might lead to unexpected merge results.”
src:
https://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.import.convert.html

Would you like to keep the current history or start from scratch a brand new,
well formated git-buildpackage repository?

> Regarding MPD 0.21, it seems to have built OK everywhere (except
> where it hasn't been built yet), so let's go and test it and then
> upload a -2 to unstable in early January so we don't get removed from
> buster by the roaraudio FTBFS.

Ack, Good :)

Cheers
k