[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#747077: Bug#747077: nodm: please ack NMUs and apply various pending patches

[Sebastian Reichel]

Hi Simon,

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 01:27:28PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> I'd rather not maintain nodm long-term, but I'd consider NMUing it if
> the maintainers would like that to happen. I attach a possible patch
> series, also available to pull from
> https://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/git/users/smcv/nodm.git
> (gitweb: <http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/smcv/nodm.git>).

Neither Enrico nor Joachim are still working actively on this
package. I have spoken with Enrico at DebConf 13 if he would
be ok with opening a RFH bug for the package and he approved
it. Then I totally forgot to actually do it.

The pkg-fso is quite small (I think I'm the last DD :/) and
nobody is working on nodm. Feel free to do whatever.

> While preparing this patch series I noticed that nodm is maintained
> in git as a non-native package, but it appears to be treated more like
> a native package, with no real upstream and no use of debian/patches to
> split out Debian changes - would the maintainers be willing to consider
> making it a real native package? That would work better with git-buildpackage,
> for instance.

sounds reasonable to me.

> Alternatively, if the maintainers would prefer to go to 3.0 (quilt) with
> maintainer-approved changes made "upstream" but NMU changes in
> debian/patches, I could prepare a version that looked more like that
> and make it available for git pull instead.

To summarize what Enrico told me: Do whatever is needed to keep nodm
up to date and working.

Thanks for working on this :)

-- Sebastian
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