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Bug#988667: cowsay: New possible project upstream

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  Bug#988667: cowsay: New possible project upstream Gareth Pulham <garethpulham@gmail.com> - 2021-05-17 18:20 +0200
    Bug#988667: cowsay: New possible project upstream Andrew Janke <floss@apjanke.net> - 2021-05-17 18:40 +0200

#1059207 — Bug#988667: cowsay: New possible project upstream

Package: cowsay
Version: 3.03+dfsg2-8
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: garethpulham@gmail.com,floss@apjanke.net

Dear Maintainer,

Debian includes the package cowsay, but the upstream of the project has
been unavailable now for some time, with only an archive.org reference
available at https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/cowsay .

Looking around identified another repository maintained by apjanke, at
https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay . This repo appears to be a
continuation rather than a "competitive" fork of the original codebase,
maintained in the spirit of the original author, with some minor updates
such as the inclusion of some debian patches. I request that this
repository be considered as the new upstream of the Debian package.

I have spoken to apjanke who confirms the above, as well as a
willingness to continue in this role, and approval at being nominated as
the new upstream - I have included him as a cc in this bug.

Thanks for your continued support of Debian and for considering this
bug.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing-security
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages cowsay depends on:
ii  libtext-charwidth-perl  0.04-10+b1
ii  perl                    5.32.1-4

cowsay recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cowsay suggests:
pn  cowsay-off  <none>
pn  filters     <none>

-- no debconf information

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#1059212

Hi, all!

apjanke here.

Gareth is right: https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay is intended to be
a continuation of support for cowsay in the original author's spirit.
It's intended to be a place for "live" maintenance of cowsay since the
original repo seems to have gone abandonware.

I plan on maintaining this cowsay by:

  * Accepting bug fixes
  * Accepting some new cows, within reason (TODO: define a policy for
"within reason")
  * Improving release & packaging stuff so it plays nice with downstream
packagers
  * Extending the $COWPATH mechanism to make it easier for users or
system maintainers to "plug in" multiple additional collection of cows
into a vanilla cowsay installation

Aside from that, I plan to keep it "simple & fun" in the spirit of the
original author, and not introduce any significant new functionality or
architecture changes. I do not plan on accepting large numbers of new
cows; instead, the $COWPATH extension should support publishing of new
cow collections as separate packages or directories at the distro, host,
or user level.

I'd be happy to serve as the new upstream for the Debian package,
incorporating some of the existing Debian patches (and have already
pulled some of them in), and doing other modifications as needed to make
life easier for the Debian package maintainers.

Thanks for your interest!

Cheers,
Andrew

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