Re: RFC: python-imgviz: Repository out of sync with Archive

Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:43:56 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.python
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On Thursday, January 15, 2026 8:06:56 AM Mountain Standard Time Arian Ott 
wrote:
> Hi Python Team,
> 
> I'm currently adopting python-imgviz, which has been orphaned (ITA:
> #1124143). While preparing the package, I ran into an issue where I
> would appreciate some advice:
> 
> The git repository on Salsa is at version 1.5.1, but the Debian
> Tracker shows that 1.7.5+ds-2 is already in the archive.
> It seems the previous maintainer uploaded without pushing the latest
> commits to Salsa.
> 
> What would be the preferred way of handling this?
> 
> I intend to import the 1.7.5 .dsc from the archive to sync the
> repository history before making my own changes.

Yes, that is what is typically done, unless you can contact the previous 
uploaders and get them to push their changes to the repository.  But, given 
that there has been no other response to your email, I would assume that 
whoever made these changes no longer subscribes to the Debian Python mailing 
list.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
[email protected]

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