Re: RM: lsb-build-cc3 -- RoQA; obsolete, unmaintained

On Wed, 30 May 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Debian FTP Masters wrote:
>
>> as the package lsb-build-cc3 has just been removed from the Debian archive
>> unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.
> [...]
>> For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/674792
>
> Does this mean that Debian no longer packages the tools to build LSB
> apps, or is there some other effort being made to make that possible
> again?

I have actually been meaning to request the removal of this package, and
several other ones which are closely related to it. I've had a lot of
trouble getting useful source releases from upstream, and I'm not aware
of anyone actually using these packages anyway. It seemed that the effort
to continue maintaining them is greater than any benefit anyone is gaining
from them.


> That seems rather sudden --- the package was not orphaned or any
> obvious notification given that this was coming.  The package has no
> RC bugs filed.  If this is about Qt 3, I would think it would have
> been possible to neuter it by removing Qt support without destroying
> the toolchain altogether.
>
> There is not much time, but would anyone like to help revive it,
> perhaps in an LSB 4 version?

If anyone is interested in adoping this package, and the ones related to
it, please get in touch with me, and we'll make it happen. The complete list
of related packages is:

 	lsb-appchk3
 	lsb-build-base3
 	lsb-build-cc3
 	lsb-pkgchk3

If anyone wants to create LSB 4 versions of these, please feel free to do so.
I'll be glad to share my experinces of having maintained the LSB 2 and LSB 3
versions, and hopefully steer you away from a couple of mistakes I made in
how I did these packages.

                                 Stuart

Stuart R. Anderson                               [email protected]
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