Bug#660208: devscripts: Please consider adding source package backport helper

[Russ Allbery]

Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> writes:
> Ole Streicher <olebole at debian.org> writes:

>> triggered by the discussion in debian-project [1]: was there any
>> progress made here? Is Russ' software still actual?

> I still use it periodically (although rarely at the moment), but haven't
> had any time to work on it and probably won't for the forseeable future.
> Quite happy to have someone else pick it up if they have the
> inclination.

Hi all,

This bug is pretty old, but to close a mental loop: I no longer backport
anything regularly (work uses Ubuntu and mostly uses a very different
software deployment system, and I rarely need backports for my personal
systems), so my backport script should be considered essentially
unmaintained.  If there's a good version out there that someone cares
about and is maintaining, I'll probably just switch to that the next time
I want to backport something and mark mine obsolete.

So please don't block incorporation of the backport script in this bug on
me evaluating it or merging it with mine; realistically, I'll not get to
that in the forseeable future.  But very happy for anyone to take anything
they want from my script: ideas, code, whatever is useful.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>