Re: Bug#824057: ITP: bitkeeper -- source code management system
On 12.05.2016 01:34, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> writes:
>> I strongly recommend against packaging software you don't personally
>> use. This never goes well. (I say this as someone who did this mistake
>> in the past, multiple times.)
>
> I don't use most of my packages myself, and I don't think it was a
> mistake to package them. The reason to package it was that I think they
> are important to the community, and I feel competent enough to support
> them.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ole
It could be argued that Bitkeeper is only available to get freely used to a little time
and more people have become the chance to get familiar with it, begin to use it for own
private projects. But it turned out that packaging this is in fact a no-option, anyway.
We've got a little deeper into the source tarball now working on if it could be packaged at
least for experimental, but there are many problems (tries to update itself, passes unknown
arguments to the command line), most significantly, it doesn't build with Tcl/TK, libtommath
and libtomcrypt in the archive. As a matter of fact the revisions of libtommath and libtomcrypt
which are still build on/shipped with are extremely outdated (10/6 years).
So, I'm closing the ITP now.
Cheers,
DS
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