Dear Maintainer, Would you be open to sponsoring my upload for a backport of this package? I am looking to start contributing to debian, and Helix 25.07 has some new features that I would appreciate being available inside the current release, so I figured this might be a good starting point. If you don't think it would be a good idea to backport this package, or that yourself or someone more experienced should create it, I totally understand, just let me know. Thanks! Andrew
Quoting Andrew Yurovchak (2026-09-15 23:08:52) I certainly see a value for users in having Helix backported to stable, but I expect it to be a quite challenging tast due to the fast-paced development of the Rust compiler and library ecosystem. You are quite welcome to try tackle that challenge if you like, but I won't sponsor your work - I will not rubberstamp works of others, only sign off on works I am actively involved in developing myself, and as stated above I expect such a backporting task to be quite a heave task that I am not willing to engage in (in addition to the projects I am already engaged in). You are also wlecome to join the general Debian maintenance of the hx package, if that might interest you. Kind regards, - Jonas
Awesome, thank you for the info. I apologize for what might have came off as an impertinent request, and thank you for your understanding. Do you think there is anything currently I can do to help out with general package maintenance? It sounds like getting a general understanding of how hx is package would help a lot with an attempt to backport it. Best, Andrew
Quoting Andrew Yurovchak (2026-09-16 00:15:49) No need for apology :-) I cannot predict the type or amount of work involved in maintaining Helix for Debian. You are welcome to join and we can see how it goes. You are also welcome to just watch from a distance how the maintenance is unfolding, but the fewer people getting directly involved in conversations the lesser reason to do conversations in the open, so... Hope that makes sense, - Jonas