Bug#1111796: ITS: nvidia-texture-tools

[Andreas Tille]

Source: nvidia-texture-tools
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: Lennart Weller <lhw at ring0.de>, Debian NVIDIA Maintainers <pkg-nvidia-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org>, Package Salvaging Team <team+salvage at tracker.debian.org>

Hi,
 
As a member of the Debian NVIDIA Maintainers team Andreas Beckmann is
interested in salvaging the package nvidia-texture-tools, in accordance
with the Package Salvaging procedure outlined in the Developers
Reference[1].  This package meets the criteria for this process, and I
would love to assist in preserving and maintaining it. As the Salvage
process suggests, here is a list of the criteria that apply, in my
opinion:
 
  - NMUs (more than one NMU in a row).
  - Bugs filed against the package do not have answers from the
    maintainer.
  - Upstream has released several versions, but despite there being
    a bug entry asking for it, it has not been packaged.
  - There are QA issues with the package.
 
The Debian NVIDIA Maintainers team considers the package a great
addition, and Andreas took the liberty to annouce this in the Salsa
repository[2] which was migrated from Alioth by Andreas Tille in his
previous upload. If you choose not to accept the ITS, we are more than
happy to help you move it to another location. Our goal is to make it as
easy as possible for you to join the team. I'd also be delighted to
assist in adding you as a team member if you could share your Salsa
login.
 
This package was highlighted in the Bug of the Day[3] initiative, which
aims to introduce newcomers to manageable tasks and guide them through
the workflow to solve them. The focus of this initiative is on migrating
packages to Salsa, as it's a great way to help newcomers become familiar
with a consistent Git-based workflow.
 
Kind regards
    Andreas.
 
[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/nvidia-texture-tools
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'buildd-unstable'), (50, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.27-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE:de
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled