On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:01:09 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message
<Ze47tR7iI4MicYtl@???>:

> On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 07:41:04PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 12:14:33 -0300, altoid wrote in message
> > <65EDCE59.4094.352713@???>:
> >
> > > Hello:
> > >
> > > On 5 Mar 2024 at 21:37, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > >

> > > > ..it's useful _if_  ...    
> > > Hmm ...
> > > No. 8^/

> > >
> > > My apologies if I seem blunt, but in my (limited/narrow)
> > > Devuan-esque point of view, Debian's "how-can-I-help" package has
> > > absolutely *nothing* to do in a Devuan repository.
> >

> > ..what it _does_ tell us, is Debian, which _is_ our upstream and 
> > which we lean waaay too heavily on as our _only_ upstream, is in 
> > trouble, with package maintainers leaving.  
> > Which again means trouble for us here at Devuan.    

>
> Maybe slightly less trouble if they were to migrate to us instead
> of giving up entirely.

..excellent theory! Now, reducing that to shanghai-them-over-here
practice... maybe tease them onboard asking advice on their package
build scripts? Would inform them we're here and that they're welcome
onboard here.

..how-can-i-help and package maintainer mail list frustration rants
should help us find them. It's a bit like chasing girls, we have to
approach them, or tease and seduce them into approaching us. ;o)

> > > I found it quite depressing to see that it actually *is* in the
> > > Devuan repositories.
> >
> > ..maybe populate it with alien-converted Slackware packages?


--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.