Bug#835533: dasher: Please package Dasher 5.0 beta

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello Adrian Bunk.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 12:58:44AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I just attached the trivial upstream fix for the FTBFS to the RC bug.

Thanks for your patch.

> 
> This should be sufficient for getting dasher back into testing,
> I have no opinions whether 5.0-beta is better or worse than the
> current git snapshot.

While the patch would solve the RC bug and get dasher back into
testing, I'm hesitant to assist in uploading it because the
question "Do we *want* to ship dasher in it current state?" is
not something your patch addresses. If we do get dasher back
into testing we'll likely have to also support it for the
lifetime of stretch. If we're struggling now to find people
willing to invest any time into dasher maintenance how will
we be able to make any guarantees about being able to support
it for the lifetime of stretch?

Until we have a somewhat enthusiastic maintainer it's probably
better to make dasher available "on the side" rather than in
the main distribution IMHO. Could you tell me your view on
this and what your motivation for posting the patch was to better
help me understand your situation?

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson