Re: Taking over scilab and moving to git
Le 15/08/2016 à 14:38, Wolfgang Fütterer a écrit :
> On Montag, 15. August 2016 09:25:46 CEST Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>> Le 15/08/2016 à 08:46, Wolfgang Fütterer a écrit :
>>> I pushed the result of my effort to my personal public git repository at
>>> alioth[1] for reviewing. Please feel free to leave comments, complaints
>>> and
>>> suggestions on how to improve it.
>> I don't see any changes besides a git migration?! This wasn't super
>> critical to me but why not..
> It was the first step for me. I took a while till I realized that the main
> development of the package was in the tags branch and not in trunk.
yes, sorry about that, I should have removed trunk (however, the vcs-*
tag should be fine)
Don't hesitate to remove all the svn stuff.
> But I must admit I have to figure out what to do next.
>
> One of my current work is to move away from cdbs to dh aka debhelper7. Again,
> because I am more used to work with debhelper than with cdbs.
this is a great idea, should not be too complex
> Other priorities will be #749833
Not a big deal to me, they have been in the archive for a very long time...
However, it would be nice to fix them if upstream can find a solution
> and the packaging of scilab v6.
Should not be too hard. Less fortran in the core. I did a branch for
that but probably not in sync.
>> I guess you are planning to move the package under the debian-science
>> git repo, right?
> Yes I will move the package to the debian-science git repo as soon as
> possible.
ok, please do that rather sooner than later
>
>> To be honest, I am a bit concern that your time is going to be as
>> limited as mine as it took a year to do that (sorry for being blunt)
> I understand that you're worried. When I decided to take ovr scilab I was a
> little bit naive about the complexity of the package. But since I currently
> have no job, I can spend more time on packaging. But I can't predict when this
> will change again.
It is still better than no maintainer. I am still available to help or
explain (I was one of the biggest contributors).
thanks for doing it
S
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