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

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Thu May 23 16:47:40 UTC 2013


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.

Cheers,

Jelmer



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