[Pkg-gridengine-devel] Bug#714661: Bug#714661: Bug#714661: gridengine and debian

[Paul Gevers]

On 09-11-13 00:20, Dave Love wrote:
> I don't have very good experience with that.  (See my comments somewhere
> in the tracker on the last NMU.)  However, part of the reason for
> re-doing the packaging is to provide the scripts which actually allow it
> to be configured in "secure" mode.
> 
> There don't appear to be any Debian developers to maintain it, but I've
> basically done the work.

Reading this response, some other remarks in the BTS and some private
communication leads me to believe that currently there are no Debian
Developers or Debian Maintainers actively enough involved to properly
take care of gridengine.

Wouldn't it make more sense to remove gridengine from Debian (for now)?
Dave can then provide his packaging from his site and not be "troubled"
by the old packaging. Apparently only Dave knows enough of the internals
of gridengine to support it. Obviously a sponsor needs to know enough of
it too, to be able to properly judge Dave's work (from the Debian
perspective). Dave this is not meant as an offense at all, it is a mere
observation. Of course you have to earn trust, but if nobody is able to
judge, you are not getting it either.

Paul


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