xapt

Neil Williams <[email protected]> Sun, 3 May 2015 08:42:31 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.embedded
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

I'd like to either remove the emdebian-crush package from unstable
(leaving only oldstable and my preferred action) or orphan it.

To be orphaned, the emdebian-crush source package needs to have the
emdebian-crush *binary* package dropped (it has no surviving merit) and
the pdebuild-cross *binary* package is horribly broken and not worth
maintaining. So it would need to become just an xapt binary, arguably
with a renamed source package which would also need to live somewhere
as VCS. That's a whole lot of work that I don't think xapt justifies
doing, so orphaning isn't an appealing option. Better to remove the
emdebian-crush source package from unstable and xapt along with it.

There is also the issue that xapt is the old way of doing things and
restarting maintenance of a method which is already dead in unstable,
testing and arguably stable. There needs to be a good reason to *have*
xapt in unstable and presumably in the Stretch stable release.

xapt has references in a variety of documentation and there may be
people interested in keeping it available - possibly outside Debian. If
that's you, please just go ahead and start on it. New VCS, single binary
package and check with the existing maintainers if they are still
interested in having their names on it - I am certainly not looking to
be Uploader.

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Neil Williams
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