[Python-modules-team] Bug#830172: python-docker: fix autopkgtest in current git packaging

[Felipe Sateler]

Hi All,

On Sat, 8 Oct 2016 19:53:31 +0200 Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se> wrote:
> Hello Tianon Gravi.
>
> Thanks for your quick followup.
>
> On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 10:37:58AM -0700, Tianon Gravi wrote:
> > On 8 October 2016 at 10:20, Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se> wrote:
> > > If there's noone with interest I'm going to remind everyone of my
> > > offer to NMU.
> > >
> > > Please reply soon or I'll take the silence as an acknowledgement to go
> > > ahead. A reply saying if you'd still have future intentions to maintain
> > > the package or if I should just orphan it while doing an upload would be
> > > much appreciated.
> >
> > FWIW, I think your plan to upload the functional 1.9 sounds sane.
>
> good to get your confirmation on that plan.
>
> >
> > I talked this over briefly with Paul, and neither of us really have
> > much interest in this package, so if you're willing to orphan it for
> > us, I don't think either of us would have strong objections.  (Not
> > sure what that means for the fact that it's technically Python
> > team-maintained.)
>
> I've been talking to the python team on IRC and there seems to be noone
> with interest there either. Ondrej has been doing work despite it seems
> he's already overworked and not really interested in the package.
>
> Orphaning it is not a great situation, but when it ends up being a
> choice between random persons not being blocked to do occational
> fixes and the other option being strong ownership totally blocking
> any changes I would prefer the former and that means orphaning.
>
> I'm not sure this is cosher but I've seen in the past people
> orphaning packages but still keeping themselves in the uploaders
> field to, I guess, indicate where you can seek advice from but
> not consider it strongly owned by that person/group. This might
> be an option here to just keep python team in uploaders while
> Debian QA is the maintainer. That would hopefully avoid anyone
> feeling pressured into feeling they have to work on the package
> when they don't really care about it.

I write here to document our (Jason Pleau and me) intention to adopt
this package.

So, we'll probably upload an updated package based on Ondrej's work
for 1.9, and then we will go to the work of updating to the latest
upstream release.

Saludos