Re: Quitting Debian Java packaging - HOWTO best
Hello Eric.
I once waited for an answer from Christine regarding freemind and then forgot it all, but I'm still interested in packaging it and related libs.
I currently trying to package EJS with Georges Khaznadar (Georges is debian maintener and EJS user with little java knowledge, I'm a java developper).
I understand when you say that "a good future packager should be able to find their way and not rely on step by step instructions", but it's really not easy at first place to get which tool to use, which is obsolete, which is prefered..
Would you mind giving help on more time to get me started on it ?
Cédric
2011/10/22 Eric Lavarde
<deb@zorglub.s.bawue.de>
Hello,
I didn't find any time for quite a long time to maintain my packages, and before their quality suffers under my lack of attention, I'd prefer to properly manage my "retirement", and would like to hear your advices, and possibly take of ownership.
Based on [1], list of packages I'm maintaining right now; they're all under maintenance of Debian Java Maintainers, but I think it would be wrong to only remove my name from the Uploaders and say good bye, so here what I'd think doing:
* freemind - already RFA, someone contacted me a while ago but nothing came out of it. See below.
* freeplane - branch of FreeMind - I would also RFA or even orphan it.
* knopflerfish-osgi - dependency of Freeplane - RFA or orphan.
* libjcalendar-java - used to be a dependency of FreeMind, not anymore, dependency of no package, and popcon 52 - candidate for removal!
* libjgoodies-forms-java - dependency of multiple packages, this one is already managed by the team. I would just remove my name from the uploaders in SVN.
* libjibx1.1-java, only a dependency of FreeMind, it could be removed as FreeMind works with Java 1.2 (needs a rebuild though) - then could be removed as no other dependent package.
* libjibx1.2-java - dependency of multiple packages, this one is already managed by the team. I would just remove my name from the uploaders in SVN.
* simplyhtml - dependency of FreeMind and Freeplane (works also standalone) - also RFA or orphan.
Few questions:
1. everybody agree to the approach drawn above?
2. does someone know by heart the procedure to remove a package? (else, GIYF, I know)
3. Should I RFA or orphan a team-maintained package (or just remove myself as uploader)?
4. My first experience with RFA of FreeMind was not very positive, so I'd like to hear your own experience and thinking to do it possibly better: the first person who contacted me didn't know about SVN, Debian packaging, etc which is OK (neither did I when I started), I helped them to find the right links and answered questions as they came, but didn't take them by the hand, with the thinking that a good future packager should be able to find their way and not rely on step by step instructions. Further candidates were put in contact with the first person, but nothing came out of it. And now the first person doesn't react anymore. I tend to think I was right with my opinion about good future packagers, bad luck and try again, but I'd also like to hear others' opinion.
Thanks, Eric
[1] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=deb%40zorglub.s.bawue.de
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622960
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