[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#832391: consensuscore2: Any news?

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:17:13 -0800 Afif Elghraoui <afif at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi, Andreas,
> 
> على الأربعاء  9 تشرين الثاني 2016 ‫03:11، كتب Andreas Tille:
> > 
> > do you have any news with this issue?
> > 
> 
> I should have posted an update. Upstream has moved consensuscore2 into a
> new source package, unanimity [1]. The packaging issues I was having are
> due to building the mixed-language code base. I have not found a good
> solution for this with debhelper, and the upstream build system was also
> very unconventional in order to handle it (which did not help
> debhelper's latching onto it). I think what needs to be done is to just
> package unanimity and have consensuscore2 be one of its binary packages.
> I'll have to see whether this problem will come up again after that.

I confirm Afif's reporting. This project is deprecated in favour of a larger
one.

We should just request an RM for this package, since we won't be getting any
support for it from upstream in the future, and focus on the new project. This
should also clear the current RC bug affecting it.

Ghis