Bug#933128: Would you be willing to pass Parse::DebianChangelog upstream development to someone else?

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

On Sun, 2019-07-28 at 22:38:29 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> the Debian Perl Team maintained libparse-debianchangelog-perl for
> quite some years now using debian-specific patches against your
> upstream version 1.2.0 from http://www.djpig.de/software/.
> 
> Being sick of doing upstream work in form of debian-specific patches,
> the Debian Perl Team is currently trying to get rid of
> libparse-debianchangelog-perl completely (see
> https://bugs.debian.org/933128) which again requires changes in quite
> some other packages including prominent ones like lintian,
> dh-make-perl and aptitude, see
> https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=libparse-debian-changelog-perl-removal&user=debian-perl%40lists.debian.org
> (aptitude still missing there).
> 
> So some of us wonder if you would generally allow Debian Perl Team
> members (or maybe even someone else) to also officially take over the
> upstream development of Parse::DebianChangelog — as you seem to have
> done for the packaging back in 2015. 

I'm not sure this makes much sense TBH? The modules in libdpkg-perl
(Dpkg::Changelog) are the direct successors of the
libparse-debianchangelog-perl codebase [C], and is the code that has
seen continued development.

Some of the features got removed, to trim down dependencies, and the
API adapted to match the rest of the libdpkg-perl codebase, but if
the removed output formats are needed, or anything else seems
suboptimal or worth improving/adding, I'm happy to work on those.

  [C] <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=7698092d0b7483340618981652c3aa69894520b8>

Thanks,
Guillem