Possible problems in your Debian packages

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 08:31:07PM +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
>On 23.02.2010 20:21, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 01:49:50PM +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
>>> On 17.02.2010 20:08, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
>>
>>>> * srtp
>>>> - it is only in unstable
>>>> - low popcon: 11
>>>> - unmaintained in debian and not very active upstream
>>>> - 4 RC bugs, but a few are looking just unmaintained and already fixed.
>>>> - on the last build of the package (april 2008!) it only failed on one
>>>> release arch: ia64
>>>> - I think this also could be dropped, as long as no other wants to
>>>> maintain it
>>>
>>> Is anyone okay with removing it from the archive? Please speak up, if
>>> not or I will schedule the removal on Sunday the 21.
>>
>> Wauw! Suggest to remove on 17th and executing on 21st.
>>
>> I was without email during the weekend, and come back to learn that 
>> srtp has been dropped from Debian. Not great!
>>
>> srtp brings encrypted data streams to asterisk. It is *not* the same 
>> as SIP over TLS (which as I understand it only secures the control 
>> channel). srtp have had problems beyond what I could fix, but that is 
>> IMHO not enough reason to drop it from Debian.
>>
>> More info at https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=5413 and 
>> http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2008-July/034081.html 
>> and an old guide here: http://www.e164.org/wiki/AsteriskSRTP
>
>Sorry, but especially srtp was quite RC buggy (4 RC bugs if I remember 
>correctly). Packages in Debian also has to met the quality standards of 
>Debian and while no one was able to maintain it in a proper way, this 
>is the right way.
>
>A remove does not mean, that it is not allowed to enter the archive in 
>the future again..

RC buggy does *not* mean that it should be removed from the archive.  It 
only means that it is not appropriate to include with a *release* of 
Debian (i.e. flow into testing and from there to stable).

Requesting a removal means there is no intend to maintain the package. 
Which is not true.


  - Jonas

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