Hi,

I'm interested in salvaging your package
libwiki-toolkit-plugin-diff-perl, in accordance with the Package
Salvaging procedure outlined in the Developers Reference[1].  I know
you are a member of the Debian Perl Group in principle and wonder,
whether it is just an oversight that your package was maintained in
your private repository.  If this is the case for sure feel free to
close this bug.

Your package meets the criteria for this process, and I would love to
assist in preserving and maintaining it. As the Salvage process
suggests, here is a list of the criteria that apply, in my opinion:

  - Not uploaded for >8 years
  - Bug filed against the package do not have answers from the
    maintainer.
  - There are QA issues with the package like insecure URIs, old
    debhelper compat level, Vcs pointing to alioth (I noticed that
    it was correctly redirected but consider to point to Salsa
    is better anyway).

I believe your package would be a great addition to the Debian Perl
Group, and I took the liberty to create the Salsa repository here[2]. If
you choose not to accept the ITS, I'd be more than happy to help you
move it to another location, such as debian/, or wherever you prefer. My
goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to join the team. I'd
also be delighted to assist in adding you as a team member if you could
share your Salsa login.

Your package was highlighted in the Bug of the Day[3] initiative, which
aims to introduce newcomers to manageable tasks and guide them through
the workflow to solve them. The focus of this initiative is on migrating
packages to Salsa, as it's a great way to familiarize newcomers with a
consistent Git-based workflow.

Kind regards
    Andreas.

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libwiki-toolkit-plugin-diff-perl
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks

I would prefer to keep this package separately maintained together with
the rest of the packages closely linked to openguides - it's very
niche and stable (read: dormant) and I think it'd just be noise for the
perl team.

Thanks for your concern.

Dominic

Hi Dominic,

thank you for your quick response.

Am Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 03:40:40PM +0100 schrieb Dominic Hargreaves:

Good argument.  Since we now have some Git repository for this package
do you think it makes sense to move it somewhere else on Salsa?  I
noticed openguides guides is at
https://salsa.debian.org/dom/openguides

It would be perfectly fine for me if you move
libwiki-toolkit-plugin-diff-perl to your space on Salsa and upload
what I prepared.  Feel perfectly free to take over the authorship
of the upload in case you want to upload that work.

In any case it makes sense to move the repository away from
perl team.

You are welcome

    Andreas.

https://salsa.debian.org/dom/libwiki-toolkit-plugin-diff-perl

Agreed, can you send me a pull request for the improvements prior to
removing the perl team fork?

Thanks
Dominic

Hi,

Am Sun, Apr 06, 2025 at 11:53:39PM +0100 schrieb Dominic Hargreaves:

Since the MR is a bit different from the one in Perl team (Maintainer,
Vcs-fields, quilt patch unapplied) I've created a new fork.  You can
find the MR at

https://salsa.debian.org/dom/libwiki-toolkit-plugin-diff-perl/-/merge_requests/2

Thanks a lot for your cooperation
    Andreas.

Hi,

Am Sun, Apr 06, 2025 at 11:53:39PM +0100 schrieb Dominic Hargreaves:

I realised I do not have sufficient permissions to remove

https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libwiki-toolkit-plugin-diff-perl

At the request of the maintainer I've created a MR based on my private
fork[1] which fits better for this purpose to have some sensible
history.  Could someone either give me permissions to remove the
repository above or simply remove it from Perl team space?

Sorry for the noise
    Andreas.


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/tille/libwiki-toolkit-plugin-diff-perl/

Thanks for your contributions, now uploaded.

Dominic

Hi Dominic,

Am Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 10:59:09PM +0100 schrieb Dominic Hargreaves:

Thank you for your fast responses in any step of this process

    Andreas.