Dear mentors,

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

 * Package name : vzlogger
 Version : 0.8.10-1
 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 packages a new upstream version. The feature most relevant to
users is in the tpic.

You can download the package with
 dget -x
http://www.heute-
morgen.de/debian/repo/unstable/main/source/net/vzlogger_0.8.10-1.dsc

Regards,
--
 Joachim Zobel

Hi Jochim,

Please upload to packages to mentors as mentors has some useful QA.

- there are undocumented changes in d/changelog.
- some entries in d/changelog should explain the why, not the what.
  For example the change from Marc Haber is not clear to me, why this
  changes, as the package is only produces arch:any packages?
- there are some B-Ds with version constraints that are fullfilled
since a long time (even older than bookworm), drop those version
constraints, if they are fulfilled since oldstable)
- (nitpick) Standard-Version is d/control: It is enough to specify 3
digits.
- (nitpick) d/copyright years (debian portion)

Cheers,
tobi
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Hi,

thanks for reviewing the package. I agree with your judgement and would
even suggest doing Debian development on Salsa to allow salsa-ci being
used for the package. Joachim, I can help with that if you want to.

That allows to build the source package without having the full set of
build-depends installed. So one can build the source package with a
smaller system and then proceed to sbuild the source package.

Greetings
Marc

Am Dienstag, dem 28.07.2026 um 20:38 +0200 schrieb Marc Haber:

I am considering this already. Since tag2upload I prefer salsa for
convenience reasons. 

The problem that there is a vzlogger upstream packaging will however
stay around for some time (until vzlogger reaches oldstable at least,
we (vzlogger) are currently still packaging for bullseye).

Sincerely,
Joachim

Hi Joachim,

Upstream packaging can be in the upstream branches with no problem, many
packages are also published by the upstream authors. I think that gbp
import-orig cleans out debian/ when doing an import.

I would take https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/debian-packaging-from-git/
as instructions as you're starting anew anyway. Maybe you would also
commit an git rm -r debian/ between the two git checkout -b calls. I do
not have experience with that but I would take a look at your repository
before you upload.

Do you want me to create debian/vzlogger on salsa and to give you
privileges, or are you a DD yourself? If you want me to help here, just
give me your salsa username.

Greetings
Marc

Am Sonntag, dem 26.07.2026 um 14:22 +0200 schrieb Tobias Frost:

I would, but I can't find it. How do I do that?

Sincerely,
Joachim

https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/

Am Samstag, dem 08.08.2026 um 14:29 +0200 schrieb Tobias Frost:
https://mentors.debian.net/package/vzlogger/

The lintian warning is an obvious false positive.

Sincerely,
Joachim

Ping

Hi,

without a salsa ci result, I must do way more testing, which I cannot do
in the next seven days. If somebody else wants to sponsor the upload,
I'll hapilly stap aside.

Also I dont see the package on mentors, but I might be holding the web
page wrong, I don't have any experience with that. You did upload to
mentors as Tobi asked you, didnt you?

Greetings
Marc