[Pkg-roundcube-maintainers] roundcube in backports

[Guilhem Moulin]

Hi,

On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 at 11:42:18 +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> In any case, the roundcube backport has been in production for two weeks
> now, and so far noone found any issue with it.

Unfortunately 1.4.3+dfsg.1-1~bpo10+1 is currently *uninstallable* (WTF?)
without pulling php-masterminds-html5 from Bullseye :-(  This is the
missing dependency I was referring to in my (two IIRC) earlier messages
as the only technical blocker for 1.4.3+dfsg.1-1~bpo10+1.  (Concerns
regarding the sustainability of the backport remain, but upstream
development isn't as fast-paced as it used to some years ago, so my gut
feeling is that keeping the backport in shape will be less painful than
for jessie-backports.)

AFAICT php-masterminds-html5 isn't lying in BACKPORTS-NEW either.  I
mailed its uploader (taffit) to ask his opinion regarding an upload to
buster-backports.  I can also take care the backport itself.  In
principle we could also demote it from Depends: to Recommends:, as IIRC
roundcube will fallback to another parser (the former default) for HTML
messages if Masterminds/HTML5 is missing; I'm quite reluctant to change
upstream defaults though.  And in any case the change would need to be
made in sid first.

> If you grant me access on Salsa, I will ofcourse import it into a git
> branch, and commit to maintaining it there at least until the release of
> bullseye.

Speaking personally, I fear a “culture clash” in terms of communication,
workflow and processes, so won't tweak the ACL.  (Trimming the requests
in my earlier replies was perhaps too subtle, so here is an explicit
answer.)  This is independent from the technical merit of your work or
the fact that 1.4.3+dfsg.1-1~bpo10+1 isn't installable (shit happens).

Cheers,
-- 
Guilhem.
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