Hi Adrian,

your package came up as a candidate for the Bug of the Day[1] several
times.  We need to admit that we also have no good idea to fix the two
open bugs of this package.  However, we also try to move packages to
Salsa into proper team spaces.  For black-box the Debian Games team
seems to be a proper fit.  In case you agree I have prepared a
repository on Salsa for your kind inspection[2].

The packaging was upgraded to latest packaging standards, passes all
Salca CI tests[3] and has no lintian errors or warnings.

Feel free to upload the suggested changes.  Alternatively I'd happily
move the repository to debian/ if you prefer to work outside the Games
team or whereever you prefer to maintain the package.  It would be
simply nice to have the package on Salsa.

Kind regards and thank you for maintaining black-box
   Andreas.


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/tille/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks#bug-of-the-day
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/black-box
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/black-box/-/pipelines/781101

Hi Adrian,

Today another one of your packages (gkrellm-tz) came up as a candidate
for the Bug of the Day query. Since you're otherwise an active and
responsive maintainer, I checked UDD and noticed that none of your
packages appear to be maintained in Git on Salsa.

This might be a deliberate choice or personal policy -- which, of
course, is entirely fine. The Salvaging Team respects such decisions. If
that's the case, it would be helpful if you could tag this bug `wontfix`
to indicate that explicitly.

If you do, I'll make sure to exclude your maintainer ID from future runs
of the Bug of the Day query, so you won't get further pings on this
topic.

Thanks for all your work on Debian and QA!

Kind regards
   Andreas.

Hi again,

I just realised that I once created a repository for your package
black-box.

Am Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 11:28:38PM +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille:

So maybe this repository[1] is helpful for you.  I'll invite you as
owner and if this is not sufficient I can help with moving it to your
own preference.

I just removed the pristine-tar branch.  Unfortunately I have no idea
about the patches-applied workflow.  IMHO, this can be done with `gbp
pq` but I never tried this.  So I'll leave the repository in the state
as is and hope it is sufficientl helpful for you to be converted to
your own prefered workflow.

As far as I understood tag2upload can deal perfectly fine with the
current repository.

As I said in my gkrellm-tz related mail I do not intend to touch the
package without your consent.

Hope this helps
    Andreas.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/black-box