[request-tracker-maintainers] RT5 status

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Hi all

It's been a little while since the last update on the list about RT5 
packages - Andrew and I have been discussing the details offlist - and
so I figured I should share where we're at.

For various reaosns this all got a bit late but we are aiming to get
RT5 in bullseye - it was uploaded to NEW on Tuesday (after some
contortions around shipping with the all the sources of the javascript
libraries).

Given the timescales involved I don't know how sure we can be of RT5
transitioning in time. We're also planning a round of updates to the
team maintained extension packages, though this is also of course
dependent on timings - they will all have to go through NEW too, because
of the new package names (even if the source package names stay
the same). Andrew and I are working through the list updating these so
they are ready to upload at the right moments.

At this stage we haven't made a final decision about whether RT4 should
ship in bullseye if RT5 makes it in. On the one hand, RT5 is still fairly
new and it's possible some users would prefer to be able to use RT4 for
a bit longer. On the other hand, there's no certainty that we will have
upstream support for RT4 for the lifecycle of bullseye.

If it does stay in, it'll need some work too:

1) we're aiming to switch gnupg1 for gnupg2 so we remove ourselves as
the last blocker to removing the former from Debian
2) RT4 also needs the above contortions to fix its DFSG requirements

Cheers
Dominic