Bug#960501: src:speex: Maintainer and NMU disagree on VCS location

[Boyuan Yang]

Hi all,

在 2020-05-13星期三的 11:57 +0100，Simon McVittie写道：
> Source: speex
> Version: 1.2~rc1.2-1
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: Boyuan Yang <byang at debian.org>
> 
> speex_1.2rc1.2-1 (the most recent maintainer upload, in 2014) has:
> 
>     Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/users/ron/speex.git
> 
> which no longer exists. The closest equivalent appears to be
> <https://salsa.debian.org/ron/speex>;.
> 
> The speex_1.2rc1.2-1.1 NMU has:
> 
>     Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/speex.git
> 
> which appears to be an independent re-import, without full history.
> 
> It is not usually considered appropriate for an NMU to change the
> canonical VCS location where a package is maintained. If the package
> is still maintained by its maintainer of record, any changes to the VCS
> platform/location should have been approved by that maintainer.
> 
> Alternatively, if the package is unmaintained
> and is being "salvaged", the salvaging process
> <
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging
> >
> should have been followed, which does not seem to have happened here.
> 
> To the maintainer: please make a maintainer upload, acknowledging
> the NMU changes (or rejecting them, if they are inappropriate) and
> setting the VCS to the maintainer's preferred location. If that is not
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/speex.git then someone will also need
> to ask the salsa.debian.org administrators to delete that repository.
> 
> To possible future NMU'ers: please use the maintainer's preferred
> VCS location, if that can be determined, instead of starting a new
> VCS location.

Thanks for raising this issue. I was not aware of 
https://salsa.debian.org/ron/speex at all when making that NMU.

Ron: please feel free to update the Vcs-* fields with the new maintainer
upload. Let me know if you need any help.

-- 
Regards,
Boyuan Yang
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