[Pkg-anonymity-tools] ooniprobe maintenance in Debian

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Arturo told me that the only blocker for the release of ooniprobe
1.2.3 upstream is some testing to confirm that it works fine on
Debian, which is their primary target platform.

So, here are a few questions:

* Is it good enough to test the upstream code from a Git checkout,
  using only dependencies found in Debian, on current Debian unstable?
  Or do we have to also prepare a ~rc package, or even a preliminary
  backport for Wheezy, and test that?

* Why not tag a release candidate upstream, that we can package and
  upload for example to Debian experimental?

* Lunar has been maintaining ooniprobe (and its dependencies?) on his
  own so far. I guess that he wouldn't mind sharing the maintenance on
  the long term (correct me if I'm wrong, of course) and... packaging
  also loves company ;) I'm *not* implying here that Lunar is doing
  a bad job at it, or that we actually have a problem to solve.

  Putting ooniprobe under the pkg-anonymity-tools team's umbrella
  seems like a far stretch to me, regarding the scope of this team.
  Still, I believe it is the closest team we currently have, and
  I doubt that creating yet another team would be a smart move: it
  does include some overhead to create and maintain infrastructure.
  So I'm undecided.

  Also, personally my plate is full enough, so I can't promise to help
  much -- I've never run ooniprobe myself! But I could certainly,
  along with someone else (Ulrike?), make myself familiar with the
  package, in order to occasionally act as a backup if needed.

  Is anyone else interested in ooniprobe maintenance? Does anyone know
  of any Debian maintainer running OONI probes, or a Globaleaks
  contributor willing to dive deeper into the Debian world?

Cheers,
-- 
intrigeri