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  • xletters - seeking new maintainer

    From Ben Armstrong@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 28 00:00:02 2015
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist

    I'd really like to see xletters go to a good home. I mentioned last
    month there's a good chance Debian would be better off switching
    upstreams to one that supports Unicode (see #798004) and today I just
    received this. As our own kids have not used this software since longer
    ago than when I last did anything for this package, I'd like to put one
    last call here, to the Debian Jr. and Edu lists before I simply orphan
    the package. I hope someone new would like to bring new energy to
    looking after what was certainly a favourite of my kids when they were
    very young.

    Please contact me if you would like to take over xletters.

    Thanks,
    Ben


    -------- Forwarded Message --------
    Subject: Bug#800238: xletters: Please migrate a supported debhelper compat level
    Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:52:44 +0000
    Resent-From: niels@thykier.net
    Resent-To: Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
    Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 17:35:06 +0200
    From: niels@thykier.net
    Reply-To: niels@thykier.net, 800238-maintonly@bugs.debian.org
    To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org



    Source: xletters
    Severity: important
    Usertags: deprecated-debhelper-compat-leq-3

    Hi,

    The package xletters is using a debhelper compat level of 3 or less
    according to lintian. These compat levels have been deprecated for
    the past ~10 years and debhelper will remove support for them in the near future (as declared in [1]).

    * Please migrate the package to a supported debhelper compat level.
    - Compat 9 is recommended
    - Compat 5 is the bare minimum (compat 4 will be removed soon as
    well)

    * If your package uses any of the following tools, please remove them
    from the rules files. Neither of them does anything except warn
    about their deprecation.
    - dh_desktop
    - dh_scrollkeeper (deadline: January 1st 2016)
    - dh_suidregister
    - dh_undocumented

    * Please note that your package might have been flagged for using
    e.g. "DH_COMPAT=2 dh_foo ...".
    - This will still cause issues when the compat level is removed.

    * If the package has been relying on dh_install being lenient about
    missing files, please see "MIGRATING TO COMPAT 5 OR LATER" in [1].

    * Deadline:
    - compat 1+2: November 1st 2015
    - compat 3: January 1st 2016

    If you are using other deprecated debhelper features (such as omitting
    the debian/compat file), please consider fixing those while you are at
    it.

    Thanks,
    ~Niels

    [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/09/msg00257.html

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