Backport biboumi

[Jonas Smedegaard]

[updating to salvaged VoIP Team mailinglist]

Excerpts from Dominik George's message of april 18, 2018 12:56 pm:
>> Excerpts from Dominik George's message of april 13, 2018 8:19 pm:
>> > I would like to update the stretch backport of biboumi, in 
>> > accordance with debacle, who did the backport for the last version.
>> > 
>> > Would you mind if we did the backporting work in a branch in the 
>> > biboumi packaging repo? (I'd also co-maintain in general if you 
>> > want.)
>> 
>> I am not involved with backporting, but if you somehow need my 
>> permission to do so, you certainly have it.
>> 
>> I would sure welcome more collaboration in maintaining the package - 
>> including simply tracking backporting effort(s) in a separate branch 
>> if it turns out you have no time/interest in helping out with the 
>> main packaging effort.
> 
> Did so.  The backport is already in stretch-backports and a branch and 
> tag pushed to the repository.

Nice!


> I have a few improvements for sid (e.g.  the identd thing I reported 
> to the BTS).  Considering you wish for more collaboration, I guess 
> it's ok if I implement them in Git directly?

Yes. Please make yourself at home :-)


> Also, are you using cdbs intentionally, or only for historic reasons?

...but don't tear down the walls of that home: My use of CDBS is 
deliberate - I intend to migrate away from it, but not all functionality 
that I have come to rely on has equivalents in debhelper.

If something in particular is in the way of your working comfortably 
with the package then please tell me (me understanding particular 
nuisances of CDBS - not only as a general concept - also helps smoothing 
my transition of the 500+ other packages I am involved in).


>> Probably worth mentioning in relation to this, that debacle has 
>> proposed to move maintenance to a different team (and that lack of 
>> proper response from me on that proposal might be a reason for lack 
>> of recent backports from him, but of course he can speak for himself 
>> on that).  I am not convinced that moving to another team is 
>> particularly beneficial for this package, and am personally reluctant 
>> to get involved in yet another team.  Please note that this is no 
>> definitive rejection, only a plea for more substantial arguments ;-)
> 
> I do not know which team debacle proposed, but this morning I also 
> wondered why biboumi is in the VoIP team, not in the XMPP team ;).  
> But I do not know enough about both teams to determine whether a move 
> would be beneficial or not.

Right, it was the XMPP team debacle proposed to move this to.

I am sure XMPP team is a nice team, but expect it to me different in 
various - possibly minor only - ways, and am personally unable to 
mentally handle any more teams currently.  When done transitioning 500+ 
packages from Alioth to Salsa, spread across numerous teams, then I will 
reconsider, but feel quite overloaded now.  Sorry.


 - Jonas
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