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  • Looking for a new maintainer for 'colordiff'

    From Dave Ewart@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 17 21:50:01 2022
    Hello,

    I've been developing 'colordiff' for more than 20 years, but in the
    Debian ecosystem I've never uploaded the packages myself. Rather I've
    been building the packages and various individuals have sponsored the
    uploads. However my most recent sponsor Colin Tuckley (since 2007) is no
    longer able to do so.

    Should I create RFS? I'm unclear whether this is more suited to a
    one-off upload or for ongoing maintainership. Advice welcome!

    Most recent colordiff in Debian is 1.0.18 and I have built packages for
    1.0.20 which is the latest release.

    https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/colordiff

    New packages at:
    https://www.sungate.co.uk/debian/colordiff/2022-02-15/

    Cheers,

    Dave.

    --
    Dave Ewart, davee@sungate.co.uk

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  • From Paul Wise@21:1/5 to Dave Ewart on Wed May 18 02:50:01 2022
    On Tue, 2022-05-17 at 20:40 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:

    Should I create RFS? I'm unclear whether this is more suited to a
    one-off upload or for ongoing maintainership. Advice welcome!

    It depends on the sponsor, some prefer you to file a public RFS for
    each upload, others prefer you to contact them in private. I suggest
    you file an RFS and see what your new sponsor says.

    I've been developing 'colordiff' for more than 20 years, but in the
    Debian ecosystem I've never uploaded the packages myself.  Rather I've
    been building the packages and various individuals have sponsored the uploads. However my most recent sponsor Colin Tuckley (since 2007) is no longer able to do so.

    This sounds like a situation where you could upgrade your privileges
    in Debian to Debian Maintainer with upload permission for colordiff,
    please pursue that once you have a new sponsor.

    https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer

    --
    bye,
    pabs

    https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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  • From Dave Ewart@21:1/5 to Paul Wise on Wed May 18 21:20:01 2022
    On Wednesday, 18.05.2022 at 08:41 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:

    On Tue, 2022-05-17 at 20:40 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:

    Should I create RFS? I'm unclear whether this is more suited to a
    one-off upload or for ongoing maintainership. Advice welcome!

    It depends on the sponsor, some prefer you to file a public RFS for
    each upload, others prefer you to contact them in private. I suggest
    you file an RFS and see what your new sponsor says.

    I've been developing 'colordiff' for more than 20 years, but in the
    Debian ecosystem I've never uploaded the packages myself.  Rather
    I've been building the packages and various individuals have
    sponsored the uploads. However my most recent sponsor Colin Tuckley
    (since 2007) is no longer able to do so.

    This sounds like a situation where you could upgrade your privileges
    in Debian to Debian Maintainer with upload permission for colordiff,
    please pursue that once you have a new sponsor.

    https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer

    Both approaches sound sensible, thanks Paul for the comments.

    Dave.

    --
    Dave Ewart, davee@sungate.co.uk


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