[18578] in athena10
Re: Moving to salsa.debian.org/debian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Mon Sep 8 23:49:36 2025
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>
To: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>,
Salvaging Team
<team+salvage@tracker.debian.org>, debathena@mit.edu
Cc: 1098197@bugs.debian.org
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Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:49:28 -0600
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[added debathena to distribution]
Karl died of cancer a few years ago.
I tried to find an efficient solution for moving Zephyr forward.
The debathena community (roughly Zephyr's upstream to the extent it has
one)
was more interested in a complete solution than one we could adopt
quickly.
But the effort to produce that solution never materialized.
The issue is that VCS for Zephyr upstream and for the Debian packaging
in Zephyr upstream has diverged somewhat from what is in Debian.
I throw up my hands. I no longer have time/interest in Zephyr.
I'd ask whether it still makes sense to include in Debian.
If zephyr gets dropped, some things like Cyrus would need a rebuild and
barnowl should probably be dropped entirely.
If someone from debathena actually does want to step up and maintain
Zephyr I'm happy to sponsor uploads at least until the person gets DM
bits (if they do not already have them).
>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> writes:
Andreas> Hi Sam and Karl, I realised that there were two uploads to
Andreas> experimental with not so "experimental" changelog entries.
Andreas> I'm specifically wondering about
Andreas> Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2021 20:15:00 -0600
Andreas> zephyr (3.1.2-2) experimental; urgency=medium . * Upload
Andreas> only to set new maintainer and get Zephyr off MIA's plate *
Andreas> I'm still trying to find VCS for the Debian packaging
Andreas> before making any real changes
Andreas> I'd offer moving the package to Debian/ team on Salsa and
Andreas> try to find some solution for bug #1098197 when doing so.
Andreas> Kind regards Andreas.
Andreas> -- https://fam-tille.de
