Re: Want to maintain flightgear and related components

Hi,

I imported the Adrian'NMU on Salsa
and re-cherry-picked the two
pending changes before they get lost

You can start working from there.

Have you heard from Ove or Markus since ?

Greetings

Le mer. 24 sept. 2025 à 09:14, Ilya Orlov <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM Bob Wong <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Guys,
> >
> > I'm trying to update flightgear to newest version 2024.1.2, currently
> > already finish simgear part.
> >
> > Looks like the package hasn't been touched for quite a while, is it OK
> > to take over the maintainer task or should I finish it as NMU?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Benxi Yang
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> I am not a Debian Developer so I can't help you with the upload of package,
> but I looked at your changes on salsa and I have some tips.
> Nowadays standard is to use git-buildpackage
> https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit
> gbp import-orig will update branches and create tags.
> Also flightgear is not in the games team at the moment, but it probably should.
> I am not sure what the process for that, probably involves contacting
> original maintainers.
> This list is not very active, you could try to write to matrix/IRC
> chat #debian-games
>