Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version
Package: tech-ctte
Severity: normal
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Hello,
GNU Global is currently "freezed" in Debian at version 5.7.1 which is
8+ years old. Many improvements and bugs were fixed in more recent
versions. Also, many frontends now expect a newer versions of global
(new flags for the command-line tools) and therefore the version
currently in Debian is difficult to use.
Ron Lee is the current maintainer and disagrees on some issues with
upstream and therefore don't want to update to a more recent
version. See bug #574947:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574947
The main issue seem to be around the CGI scripts. I believe that most
users don't care about those. Upstreams is OK to not have the scripts
packaged in Debian. There seems to be other issues but it is quite
unclear what they are. Bug #816924 is about the same thing but Ron
didn't participate at all:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=816924
I suppose that Ron may not accept to update the package even if the
tech committee overrules him. In this case, Punit Agrawal accepts to
take over the maintainance of the package and already produced some
packages for newer versions. Those packages would remove the CGI
scripts.
Could the technical committee:
1. Mediate this issue with Ron to get him to accept package a newer
upstream version.
2. If unsucessful, overrule Ron on the decision to package a new
upstream version.
3. If Ron doesn't want to package himself a new upstream version,
transfer the ownership of the package to Punit. I'll sponsor the
uploads and assist him in this task.
There are other possibilities like a different package
"global6". However, it is unsure if Ron would accept to collaborate on
this (notably with the alternative system):
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574947#166
"global6" could also conflict/replace global instead of using
alternatives. However, it is unclear if global6 can be considered as
replacing global. We don't know if Ron would agree to that. If he
doesn't, another possibility for the technical committee would be to
overrule him and allowing global6 to conflict/replace global.
Thanks.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental-debug'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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