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Bug#1052598: What do you think about moving sisl to Debian Science team

From	Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
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Subject	Bug#1052598: What do you think about moving sisl to Debian Science team
Date	2025-10-07 11:50 +0200
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Hi Simon,

Thank you for your quick reply.

Am Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 04:40:43PM +0900 schrieb Simon Richter:
> > Of course, I realize there may have just been no need for uploads
> > recently - I just wanted to check in before following the usual "Intent
> > to Salvage" procedure that's sometimes applied to older packages.
> 
> I have an RFA bug open (#1052598) -- I packaged this originally as a
> dependency of KiCad, but KiCad no longer uses SISL, so I don't really use it
> anymore either.

Ahhh, cool.  I missed this.  Just keeping the bug in CC to get this
conversation recorded.
 
> Upstream still exists, but has not made any new releases.

I became aware of this when I checked the package.

> Gard Spreemann has volunteered to take over a year ago, but I did not manage
> to respond to that message because it came during a really stressful time,
> and I then forgot about it. I'll ask him if he's still interested.

I slightly remember Gard is open for Debian Science team work anyway.
So my time is most probably not wasted if I create a repository there.
In the worst case Gard can take over without using it.

See you
   Andreas.

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Bug#1052598: What do you think about moving sisl to Debian Science team Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> - 2025-10-07 11:50 +0200
  Bug#1052598: What do you think about moving sisl to Debian Science team Gard Spreemann <gspr@nonempty.org> - 2025-10-07 13:40 +0200
    Bug#1052598: What do you think about moving sisl to Debian Science team Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> - 2025-10-07 15:00 +0200
      Bug#1052598: What do you think about moving sisl to Debian Science team Gard Spreemann <gspr@nonempty.org> - 2025-10-07 15:20 +0200
        Bug#1052598: What do you think about moving sisl to Debian Science team Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> - 2025-10-07 16:20 +0200

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