Re: Is "discover" still maintained by the Debian Install System Team?
Am 14. Januar 2018 22:53:16 MEZ schrieb Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>:
>Hi Tobias,
>
>Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org> (2018-01-14):
>> Dear Debian Install System Team,
>>
>> while doing MIA houskeeping work, I came across the package discover.
>>
>> From here it does look quite a bit neglected, last non-NMU upload in
>> 2015 and thre is also a SEGV bug reported since 4 months without
>> follow up.
>>
>> Note that there are four uploaders listed, but one uploader asked to
>be removed
>> #848424 and one has retired (#847266), so there is only David and
>> Petter (which bith did not do any uploads recently and David not even
>having
>> a valid key in the keyring)
>>
>> I'd appreciate it if you could briefly respond whether discover is
>still
>> actively maintained by the team or if it should be RFA'd or if you
>agree
>> that it is not orphan the package.
>
>It's complicated… Some threads where it's discussed:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2015/07/msg00052.html
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2017/12/msg00034.html
>
>Long story short: until it's (maybe) replaced, it probably should be
>maintained by people aware of d-i specific things… I'm not sure whether
>an RFA would help here. Keeping the (strange, to say the least) status
>quo with debian-boot@ as Maintainer might be the easiest way?
>
>
>Cheers,
Thanks Cyril for answering (and the upload).
I agree it makes sense to keep it as it, especially now as I know that you d-i people are keeping an eye on it :)
Kudos!
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