• Bug#1106814: 9 NMUs + multiple upstream versions = Unmaintained pkg & s

    From Nicholas D Steeves@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 30 00:20:01 2025
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  • From Nicholas D Steeves@21:1/5 to Andrej Shadura on Thu Jun 5 22:40:01 2025
    Hi Andrej and Lee!

    Thank you for the quick reply and sorry for the delay in mine.

    "Andrej Shadura" <andrew@shadura.me> writes:

    On Fri, 30 May 2025, at 00:12, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
    Where do we go from here? If there's some kind of unofficial "The
    Borg Collective is open to all DDs, like the debian/collab-maint
    group" that should be documented, but I don't think the silence is ok.
    If it's an approved inside joke, can we at least put an easter egg
    somewhere?

    Would it be alright if Geoffroy and I officially joined the team?

    You have been assimilated. Resistance is futile 🙂

    Hahaha, and how is this different from how Debian usually acquires
    labour? ;)

    More seriously though, yes, you're part of the team^W collective if you do the work and care about the packages. That said, I personally never used borgmatic, I mostly sponsored it or did some maintenance because someone had to.

    Wonderful! Yeah, I know what you mean.

    Do you have the necessary Salsa access?

    I just checked, and surprisingly yes! It appears that anyone who can
    write to the Debian (old collab-maint) group can also write to bormatic
    and borgbackup, and....oh! It's because The Borg Collective is under
    this namespace. I wonder if all the other DDs know that they've already
    been assimilated?

    Lee, I noticed you've recently become an Uploader. Would you please
    open acknowledge all the NMUs in debian/changelog? There is more info
    about this at various places (Policy, Developers Reference, etc.). You
    can also close this bug in that changelog entry.

    Cheers,
    Nicholas

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