I request assistance with maintaining SBCL in Debian.

It is the most popular Free Software compiler for Common Lisp.
So, most anyone who is interested in both Debian and Common Lisp is likely
interested in SBCL, too.

The upstream project is stable but seems relatively often to introduce changes
that break our packaging scripts.
Possibly there should be an attempt made to simplify how we do things.

This would be good for a new contributor to Debian who is otherwise
experienced with bootstrapping compilers / development environments.
You definitely don't need to be a Debian Developer to help.

The package description is:
 SBCL is a development environment for the ANSI Common Lisp language.
 It provides a native-code compiler and an integrated debugger, as well
 as all the features in the ANSI specification.
 .
 SBCL also contains other extensions to the ANSI specification, including
 a foreign-function interface, a pseudo-server API, user-extensible
 stream functionality, a Meta-Object Protocol, and an ability to run
 external processes.
 .
 To browse SBCL source definitions with development environments,
 install the sbcl-source package. For documentation on SBCL's usage
 and internals, the package sbcl-doc is provided.

Hello Sean,
Are you still looking for the help maintaining SBCL on Debian? If so, could you please elaborate more on what’s involved? I’m a Unix admin with 30+ years of experience, and not a stranger to the Common Lisp as well. I”d love to help, but will need to estimate an effort, and how it fits in my schedule.

Thank you
Alex Fler

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