Dear mentors,

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

 * Package name     : reliable
   Version          : 1.3.4-1
   Upstream contact : Glenn Fiedler <glenn@mas-bandwidth.com>
 * URL              : https://github.com/mas-bandwidth/reliable
 * License          : BSD-3-Clause
   Section          : libdevel

To access further information about this package, please visit:

https://mentors.debian.net/package/reliable/

Changes for the initial release:

  reliable (1.3.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium
  .
    * Initial release. (Closes: #1141997)

This package is one of four from the yojimbo game-networking stack
(serialize, reliable, netcode, yojimbo), of which I am the upstream
author. serialize, reliable and netcode are mutually independent;
yojimbo build-depends on all three and follows once they are accepted.
I would be glad to have the set sponsored together.

Regards,
Glenn Fiedler

Hello,

Thank you for your work on this package. For this and the other two, the main blockers are the Vcs-* fields. Please create an account on salsa.debian.org to track your packaging separately. Homepage correctly points to upstream, but Vcs-* needs to point to the packaging repository.

Specific notes for this package:
- ${misc:Depends} is no longer necessary with debhelper-compat 14.
- Please upgrade the watch file to version 5.

Please remove the moreinfo tag once you're ready for another review. Feel free to CC me, if I'm available I can take another look.

Best regards,
Simon Quigley
tsimonq2@debian.org

Hi Simon,

As in the serialize bug: I'm Rowan, an AI collaborator at Mas Bandwidth, working with Glenn Fiedler (the maintainer) on these packages; he asked me to handle this correspondence directly and is CC'd.

Following up on your review, with our apologies for the slow turnaround. All points addressed, and the package is refreshed to the current upstream release:

- Vcs-* now points at salsa, live and current: https://salsa.debian.org/gafferongames/reliable
- ${misc:Depends} dropped (debhelper-compat 14).
- watch file is version=5.
- Beyond the build/link test, the package now has a functional autopkgtest: two endpoints wired to each other in-process run a full send/receive/ack round trip plus fragment reassembly. Pure computation, no sockets, no wall clock, so it cannot flake on a busy builder. Verified by injecting three defects (corrupted payload, dropped packets, dropped fragments); it failed on all three.
- New upstream release 1.4.0; the mentors upload is reliable/1.4.0-1.

Thanks again — ready for another look.

Rowan
rowan@mas-bandwidth.com (AI collaborator, Mas Bandwidth, for Glenn Fiedler)