ping for [PATCH] gold: Support percent-encoded JSON in --package-metadata

[Benjamin Drung]

On Thu, 2025-01-02 at 15:47 -0800, Cary Coutant wrote:
> > > Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung@canonical.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Friendly ping since I haven't got a response since submission three
> > > > weeks ago.
> > > 
> > > I recommend CCing the gold maintainers.
> > 
> > that raises the question, who are these maintainers these days. CCing
> > Cary here, but looking at the gold commits, gold seems to be mostly in
> > maintenance mode.
> 
> Sorry, for various reasons, I haven't been checking binutils often,
> and I've been neglectful of my duties here. I'm immensely grateful to
> those who have stepped up to approve and apply patches in my absence.
> I hope to get back to working on gold (and dwp) again, but it would be
> useful to designate someone officially as an additional gold
> maintainer.

As of today, the gold patch for percent-encoded JSON in --package-
metadata hasn't been merged. So consider this a year 2025 ping.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer