[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#851747: sysvinit-utils: unmaintained package should not be Essential

[Ian Jackson]

Petter Reinholdtsen writes ("Bug#851747: sysvinit-utils: unmaintained package should not be Essential"):
> [Ian Jackson]
> > I don't want to do an upload of this package just to change the
> > Uploaders - particularly at this stage of the release.
> 
> Why not?  I would guess particularly at this stage in the release, it is
> smart to trim the list of maintainers down to those that plan to spend
> time on the sysvinit package for the next stable release cycle.

FYI right now in sid, no people at all are named in debian/control -
just the pkg-sysvinit-devel list.

> > But, for the avoidance of any doubt, I hereby re-express my intent to
> > help adopt this package.  I would like the next upload to name me in
> > Uploaders.  I'm happy to share this role with the people who have
> > written to #811377.
> 
> Did you commit your name to git?  If not, why not?

I didn't think of it.  I'm not very used to team maintenance, so
please forgive me if I make obvious mistakes like this.

I have done this now, with a changelog entry that closes these two
bugs.  I think that is appropriate but I'm sure someone will complain
if not.

I see that we have offers of help from various people in #811377.

I have also added Benda Xu, based on
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=811377#25
I see that Benda doesn't seem to be a DD.  Needless to say I am happy
to sponsor uploads and/or review and push git branches.

With sysvinit being maintained in collab-maint, I think Benda won't be
able to push to it directly.  Benda, I suggest that if you want to
contribute you make a git branch in a tree of your own on alioth, and
use git-request-pull.

Simon Richter's message was more ambiguous.  Simon, would you like to
be listed in Uploaders ?  If so please do that in the collab-maint
repo,   git.debian.org:/git/collab-maint/sysvinit.git

Benda, and Simon, are you subscribed to pkg-sysvinit-devel ?

We should have a conversation on the devel list about what changes we
want to see in stretch (and what bugs we want and/or need to fix).

Thanks,
Ian.

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