[Pkg-gridengine-devel] Debian gridengine package

[rf at q-leap.de]

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Love <d.love at liverpool.ac.uk> writes:

Hi Dave,

thanks for your input on this.

    Dave> <rf at q-leap.de> writes:
    >> Hi,
    >>
    >> I see that this package is close to orphaned and probably in risk
    >> to be dropped for jessie. I'd possibly be able to take over
    >> maintenance of the package. To reaffirm this I'd like to have a
    >> look at the current repo but the VCS link at
    >> https://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gridengine.html is broken.

    Dave> For what it's worth, I can still access
    Dave> <git://git.debian.org/git/users/mhy/gridengine-debian>, but
    Dave> that would be a bad starting point.

    Dave> <git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-gridengine/pkg-gridengine.git>
    Dave> was an attempt to update it to the then-current free software
    Dave> version.  The upload long ago was rejected with what seemed
    Dave> impossible demands, particularly requiring a list of copyright
    Dave> holders, if I recall correctly.  (I'd modelled the attempt on
    Dave> the Linux packaging, and significantly improved the copyright
    Dave> tracking over the old gridengine version.)

    Dave> There's a darcs repo of my current attempt at debian packaging
    Dave> at <http://arc.liv.ac.uk/repos/darcs/gridengine.debian/> with
    Dave> a git mirror at
    Dave> <http://arc.liv.ac.uk/repos/git/gridengine.debian/> which I've
    Dave> just fixed.  I can't remember whether there were any fixes for
    Dave> the last Debian unstable I tried in the basic 8.1.8 source
    Dave> that I hope to push out in the next few days, but it was
    Dave> mostly dealing with Fedora packaging.

OK, http://arc.liv.ac.uk/repos/git/gridengine.debian/ might be a good
starting point for a new release.

    >> Please, somebody of the current maintainer team voice your
    >> opinion about this or the future plans of d/gridengine.

So, anyone? If I don't hear anything by Monday, I'll talk about the
issue to some of the DDs I know for a hint about how to proceed.

    Dave> I suspect there isn't anyone.  It should be removed in its
    Dave> current state, particularly as the configuration is totally
    Dave> insecure and doesn't ship the components to secure it as far
    Dave> as I remember and it had one supposed security fix that wasn't
    Dave> which I couldn't do anything about.

Can't tell as of now ...

    Dave> If there is a DD who could get something current and vaguely
    Dave> maintained into Debian, I'd be happy to help.

Thanks a lot for the offer. In case I'll take over maintenance, I'll
definitely come back to it :)

Best,

Roland

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