Bug#841294: Overrule maitainer of "global" to package a new upstream version
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> wrote:
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>
> I see the following good ways out of this problem:
>
> A) Ron stays maintainer of src:global and uploads a reasonably recent 6.x
> version to unstable;
> B) (With or without an explicit decision by the TC), src:global is handed over
> to new maintainers and they'd upload a reasonably recent 6.x version to
> unstable;
>
> (
> In both A) and B) cases, whoever is maintainer of src:global would be in
> charge of handling the subsequent (so far hypothetical) bugs in time for
> the release. As usual, everyone is welcome to help with finding,
> forwarding, and fixing bugs.
> )
One suggestion to keep extra debian (non-upstream) functionality in
global is to move it to another package package. The package would
build on upstream htags and allows users to share their html
cross-indexing via cgi-bin.
As I understand it, the extra feature pertains to enabling access via
web-server to html index of sources generated by htags.
>
> I see this as a suboptimal outcome, because it rewards inertia and stop-
> energy:
>
> C) Ron stays maintainer of src:global and uploads a reasonably recent 6.x
> version to experimental, with the explicit goal of making that version later
> available through stretch-backports.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> OdyX
>
> P.S. Sorry for the wall of text, including too many repetitions :/
>
> [0] I know, it's all obvious.
> [1] Yes, 6+ years, even at the Debian rhythm, is indefinite.
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