Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "vzlogger":

 * Package name : vzlogger
 Version : 0.8.9-1
 Upstream contact : Joachim Zobel <jz-2017@heute-morgen.de>
 * URL : http://wiki.volkszaehler.org/software/controller/vzlogger
 * License : GPL-3
 * Vcs : https://github.com/volkszaehler/vzlogger
 Section : net

The source builds the following binary packages:

 vzlogger - program to read measurements from smart meters and log them
to Influxdb or forward them via MQTT.

This release fixes 2 FTBFS bugs.

You can download the package with
 dget -x
http://www.heute-
morgen.de/debian/repo/unstable/main/source/net/vzlogger_0.8.9-1.dsc

Regards,
--
 Joachim Zobel

On 03/10/25 08:18 AM, Joachim Zobel wrote:

Hi,
review. The repository at

Vcs-Git: https://github.com/volkszaehler/vzlogger.git -b debian
Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/volkszaehler/vzlogger/tree/debian

is obviously not the one you use to prepare the package for inclusion in
Debian (as visible in the changelog). Is there another public repository
maybe?

I think the change regarding the adduser fix should be included in the
changelog as well.

Bernhard

Am Montag, dem 06.10.2025 um 00:59 +0200 schrieb Bernhard Schmidt:

It actually is. There is just no v0.8.9-1 tag yet, because there has
not been a release. The difficult situation is that packaging is
maintained as part of upstream because upstream (me) is building Debian
packages that are published through a cloudsmith repo. This is needed
mostly because vzlogger should easily be usable on older raspberry pis.

As a result it is not obvious to me what changes should be mentioned in
the changelog. Do I need to mention packaging changes or should I only
mention Debian packaging changes?

This is such a case. The change is only necessary for upstream
packaging. Bullseye does not accept policy conforming usernames
starting with underscore.

I will adapt the changelog.

Thanks,
Joachim

There is an unclear distinction between Debian changes and upstream
changes here. But the adduser change touches a Debian postinst script, I
would expect that to be in the changelog.

Unfortunately I cannot test it myself because my vzlogger VM still runs
bookworm (and it does not build in bookworm due to the increased
libsml-dev dependency), but the changes look innocent enough.

Thanks, uploaded.

Bernhard