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

[Benda Xu]

Hi Ian,

Thank you for the follow up.

Ian Jackson <ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> 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.

Yeah, that work for me.  I am a DM seeking to be a DD.

Fingerprint: C3A504840B678260DA12766AD25D611C8E192076
Uid: Benda Xu <h at g.o>

> 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.

I have a guest account on alioth and I am on the list of collaborative
maintainers:

  https://alioth.debian.org/projects/collab-maint

No problem pushing to the sysvinit git repo.

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

Yes, I am in the list.

> 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).

Ah-ha, will dig out the mailing list archive.

Yours,
Benda