[Pkg-octave-devel] Sundials is way outdated

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 22:11 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 03:42:30PM +0000, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> > >  
> > > > Moving forward, I will noowner the ITA and let whoever is in charge take its
> > > > ownership. Please communicate your progress there and on the team's
> > > > mailing-list.
> > 
> > I have just set #798331 to noowner. Please follow the package adoption
> > guidelines in https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq.
> 
> I admit I would have prefered if you would have left you as owner and
> would take over the lead here.

I thought I was stepping on someone else's work (Dima or James) and
that an official update to a more recent release was already underway.
Hence myself leaving the RFA up for whoever was in charge.

I should state upfront that I am not comfortable with the way this
packaging effort has been performed so far. Looking at the history,
Dima started the work on 2.7 and imported the Debianization from svn,
without any consideration for past work nor policy. The very minimum
would have been to start with a `gbp import-dscs` if a proper import
from svn was too hard to achieve, despite the process being documented
in different places on the Debian wiki.

Finally, considering the complexity of this software, it would be nice
to clarify upfront who is intending to maintain sundials long-term.
Again, looking at the history, Dima kickstarted the update effort for a
week in October last year, and apparently gave up afterwards. That does
not sound like a confident statement for long-term maintenance to me.

I hope you guys understand my concerns here.

Cheers,
Ghis