[Pkg-mailman-hackers] [Mailman-cabal] Re: removal from Debian

[bendikker at vfemail.net]

No, that was not a joke,

I do understand what you as mailman want to do. Im just surprised
that mailman is a gnu package.
You as a GNU package could at least inform GNU. That is why
I now also cc maintainers at gnu.org .

Ok, Im not a programmer, but earlier I thought it is unsure you manage  
to find a solution.
Maybe then, I thought, GNU itself might be able to manage libmatheval  
(which I myself strongly doubt).

Sorry, this is my last post on this subject.


Quoting "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull.stephen.fw at u.tsukuba.ac.jp>:

> bendikker--- via Mailman-cabal writes:
>
>  > I'm speechless.
>
> This is a joke?  If not, let me say that this:
>
>  > Quoting Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb at debian.org>:
>
>  > > I probably wont. As the lib is not maintained anymore, I won't
>  > > invest some time to make it guile-2.2 compatible. I'd rather see
>  > > with the uwsgi team what are our options to drop this dependency.
>
> is what I would recommend to everybody who isn't primarily working in
> guile anyway.  Even if somebody went to the trouble of making
> libmatheval guile-2.2-compatible, there's a very good chance that we
> at GNU Mailman would, as Abhilash suggested, just say "uswgi is
> unsupported and risky at best, use gunicorn if you want any help from
> us on your WSGI server".  It's not a matter of being a language bigot,
> it's a matter of managing our own dependencies if we have to.  When
> the dependency itself is unmaintained and depends on multiple language
> ecosystems we don't normally work with, "good-bye" is our favorite
> word.
>
> Steve




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