[Pkg-bazaar-maint] What to do with trac-bzr, bzr-xmloutput, bzr-pipeline

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:33:45PM -0400, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote:
>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
>> > I'm wondering what to do with these three packages that I orphaned about a year
>> > ago. Nobody has picked them up and they have a relatively small install base
>> > (popcon reports < 100 installs for each).
>> >
>> > Does anybody have any plans to take these over? Should we request removal of
>> > them from unstable/jessie? Or should we just keep them around while they're not
>> > too badly broken? At least trac-bzr and bzr-xmloutput FTBFS at the moment though,
>> > because of upstream API changes in bzr.
>>
>> Thanks for bringing this up Jelmer. For now at least, I'd say let's
>> keep them around.
>>
>> I'll get trac-bzr and bzr-xmloutput fixed shortly. I'll "re-adopt"
>> them just so that the maintainer isn't Debian QA Group. That way it
>> will keep them on the team's qa overview. I guess I'll change the
>> Orphan bugs into RFAs.
>
> Great, thanks!
>
> Related, what would you like to do about bzr-git and bzr-fastimport? They're
> both also orphaned, and at least bzr-fastimport is broken against 2.6 AFAIK.

I suppose I'll do the same there as well. Maybe it's time for me to
put out a more general call for help in the Ubuntu Community? With
bazaar being in use there for the foreseeable future, there ought to
be a few more Ubuntu devs interested in pitching in...

-- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio

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