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

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On Fri, 16 Jan 2026, 00:44 Soren Stoutner, <soren@debian.org> wrote:

> 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.


Thanks for the pointers. How would I document it in d/changelog? There
would be a gap.

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.
>
> Sounds good.

Furthermore, upstream's latest release is 2.0.0 alpha and introduces
breaking changes.
Is it generally a good practice to package the latest stable release or can
I package the alpha version?


--
Arian Ott
arian.ott@ieee.org

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RFC: python-imgviz: Repository out of sync with Archive Arian Ott <arian.ott@ieee.org> - 2026-01-15 16:10 +0100
  Re: RFC: python-imgviz: Repository out of sync with Archive Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2026-01-16 00:50 +0100
    Re: RFC: python-imgviz: Repository out of sync with Archive Arian Ott <arian.ott@ieee.org> - 2026-01-16 11:50 +0100
      Re: RFC: python-imgviz: Repository out of sync with Archive Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@t-online.de> - 2026-01-16 14:20 +0100
        Re: RFC: python-imgviz: Repository out of sync with Archive Arian Ott <arian.ott@ieee.org> - 2026-01-16 16:50 +0100
      Re: RFC: python-imgviz: Repository out of sync with Archive Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2026-01-17 02:10 +0100
        Re: RFC: python-imgviz: Repository out of sync with Archive Arian Ott <arian.ott@ieee.org> - 2026-01-17 19:40 +0100
          Re: RFC: python-imgviz: Repository out of sync with Archive Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2026-01-17 19:40 +0100
            Re: RFC: python-imgviz: Repository out of sync with Archive Arian Ott <arian.ott@ieee.org> - 2026-01-17 19:50 +0100
            Re: RFC: python-imgviz: Repository out of sync with Archive Arian Ott <arian.ott@ieee.org> - 2026-01-20 10:50 +0100

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