[Proftpd] Further progress and questions

Hilmar Preuße hille42 at web.de
Tue Apr 10 19:23:43 BST 2018


Am 10.04.2018 um 09:26 teilte Francesco P. Lovergine mit:
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 09:34:35PM +0200, Hilmar Preuße wrote:

Hi,

>> 1.
>> In most modules package we have the following dep line:
>>
>> Depends: proftpd-basic (>= 1.3.3d-4~), ${misc:Depends},
>> ${shlibs:Depends}, ${proftpd:Depends}
>>
> 
> I think this is now obsoleted, that was used at the time to depend
> on the right edition of the proftpd+proftpd-dev and being nice
> against backports.
> 
>> The last ${proftpd:Depends} entry introduces a dep on proftpd-abi, which
>> in turn pulls in a dep on proftpd-basic. Hence I don't understand, why
>> the packages explicitly declare a dep on proftpd-basic (>= 1.3.3d-4~).
>> Could you explain it?
>>
> 
> Just drop it, 1.3.3d has been lost in time during past release cycles.
> 
Will remove that dep ASAP.

>> 3.
>> We need to migrate to salsa sooner or later. Do you have that on your
>> list? Did you get an answer to your request for a new mailing list?
>>
> 
> I still had not time to have a look to the right procedures to follow.
> Are you volunteering to help on that?
> 
As you've noticed I'm not experienced in git. Further I don't really 
have predictable working times, so we can't coordinate. If you have some 
tasks I can do w/o coordination w/ your work, let me know.

Hilmar
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