Re: About Jenkins in Debian

[Guido Günther <gg@godiug.net>]

Hi,
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:15:36AM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for the feedback, I'm glad to hear that at least one person
> > found our work useful.
> 
> I indeed do, yes.
> 
> > Technically you could achieve the same stability by installing the
> > upstream package once and disabling the jenkins-ci entry in
> > /etc/apt/sources.list.
> 
> Hrm, so is upstream’s packaging any good then? I have seen
> so many attempts of upstream to package “for” Debian that
> I don’t believe them unseen any more…
> 
> … (plus I’d not know which version to pick, and “nobody
> ever got fired for buying IB^W^Wusing what’s in Debian” ☺)

I'd like to chime in here. I've been a happy user of the package so far
myself but never got around to actually help maintaining it in Debian.

Cheers,
 -- Guido