Bug#1137523: RFS: opentk/1.1.4c+dfsg-3.1 -- RC bug fix: drop cli-common-dev dependency [NMU]

Andrey Rakhmatullin <[email protected]> Thu, 28 May 2026 12:42:28 +0500

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On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 10:22:44PM -0400, James Montgomery wrote:
>Looking more carefully at the package: the -3 upload was already a team
>upload (by Andreas Tille), and the VCS is at
>salsa.debian.org/dotnet-team/opentk. Setting Maintainer to Debian QA Group
>while the Salsa repo stays under dotnet-team felt like it warranted a
>question rather than a silent assumption.

[...]

>Given the Salsa location, would a proper team adoption (ITA, then team
>upload under dotnet-team) be more coherent here, or do you still prefer the
>QA path? 

I see the questions we need to answer like this:

1. Do you want to adopt the package or do a single upload? This is for you 
to decide.
2. If adopting, do you want to revive the AFAIK not existing team (with 
yourself as the only active contributor?) or just be the only maintainer? 
This is mostly for you to decide I think.
3. If doing a single upload for the fix, should be NMU, QA or team upload?
I think it shouldn't be a NMU, it can be a QA upload and at the current 
state it could be a team upload without further obligations as there is no 
team to be sad about that. 

However, I think it's important to have the package marked as orphaned 
both in the BTS and in the package itself, or in neither of those places. 
As for the salsa repo location, I think it's unfortunate but it looks like 
yet another drive-by team change upload by Andreas and we all need to learn 
how to live with those. You can always move the repo to debian/ or your 
personal namespace if you want to maintain it outside of the team.

-- 
WBR, wRAR

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