Nicholas,

Thank you for already forwarding patches. If you haven't already, and are interested in Debian metadata for patches, please take a look at "DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines".

I'll try and review how I have formulated these patches. It was all very cumbersome to just get the actual substance of the patches to work, but then I discovered "gbp pq" which makes it somewhat easier. So, I may clean up my patch branch and prepare a cleaner set of patches, reducing them from the 15 or so there are now to probably something closer to half that. There is definitely a distinction between Debian-specific patches, which may always need to be applied, and patches that can be moved upstream.

Thank you very much for you work on this! For feedback about your Debian packaging project, may I suggest one or more of the following lists:

debian-devel (general/main development list) debian-python (Python Team list) debian-admin (Debian System Administration list) <- maintain Debian infrastructure debian-mentors (for packaging-related and Debian Policy questions).

Thank you for the pointers! I have discussed some Salsa-related issues on debian-python already, leading to the availability of packages published from Salsa for broader convenience. I imagine that debian-admin might have some interest in Moin 2, although I noticed a Salsa-based discussion where people were enthusiastic about migrating the Debian Wiki to MediaWiki instead of switching to Moin 2. Still, I think a broader audience would benefit from access to this software. (Obviously, the ejection of Python 2 from Debian has exacerbated the Debian Wiki situation, and I think that more care should have been taken with the deprecation of Python 2. There is also a good argument for keeping a package for Python 2 itself around in the longer term, making sure that it still compiles using contemporary compilers, given that individual users may have scripts that still use it.)

I think that it would be valuable to have your Moin2 package as an official Debian package in the standard repositories, and I hope you'll consider reaching out to one of the mailing lists noted above. There are also IRC channels, and there is not necessarily overlap between the people who follow the lists vs irc.

I will probably stick to mailing lists, beginning with debian-python and debian-admin, I think.

Debconf23 is currently ongoing in Kochi, India, so it's one of the perfect moments for announcing, discussing, and collaborating on projects. Worst case scenario, I hope that you will find someone to carry the torch of your work the last 10%, but I think it's more likely you will find collaboration :)

Thank you for following up and for the encouragement! Regards, Paul