[DRE-maint] Bug#602697: chef-solr depends on solr

[Thomas Koch]

Adam D. Barratt:
> On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 11:38 +0100, Thomas Koch wrote:
> > I've written a mail ("Remove Solr from Squeeze?") on 2010/10/12 to
> > debian-java and the package's maintainer Jan-Pascal van Best and
> > proposed the removal of solr from Squeeze, mainly because:
> > 
> > - - it's already outdated a year by now (see bug #602696 )
> > - - it doesn't even include all contribs (see bug #602695 )
> > - - the package has accumulated too many bugs
> > - - there doesn't seem to be enough (wo)man power to maintain the package
> > 
> >   right now on a standard that would make it fit for Debian _stable_
> > 
> > So until nothing else happens, please don't include solr in Debian
> > squeeze.
> 
> The package has a reverse-dependency in testing already, so can't be
> removed right now:
> 
> Checking reverse dependencies...
> # Broken Depends:
> chef: chef-solr

to the maintainer of Chef in Debian,

this is just to inform you, that there is a recommendation from me to remove 
the solr package from Debian. However since chef-solr does depend on solr, 
you'd affected by this removal.

I've had a quick look over the informations about your package (bugs, 
piuparts, lintian) and would like to ask you, whether you wouldn't also be 
better to not include chef in Debian in its current state. - Please keep in 
mind that you commit yourself to maintain your package during the entire life 
of Debian Squeeze which may well be over two years!

Users of chef could still install chef via testing or backports if chef should 
not be shipped with Debian Squeeze.

If you still want to include chef in Debian Squeeze, would you like to help 
maintaining the solr package?

Best regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro