Re: RM: lsb-build-cc3 -- RoQA; obsolete, unmaintained
On Wed, 30 May 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Hi,
Debian FTP Masters wrote:
as the package lsb-build-cc3 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.
[...]
For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/674792
Does this mean that Debian no longer packages the tools to build LSB
apps, or is there some other effort being made to make that possible
again?
I have actually been meaning to request the removal of this package, and
several other ones which are closely related to it. I've had a lot of
trouble getting useful source releases from upstream, and I'm not aware
of anyone actually using these packages anyway. It seemed that the effort
to continue maintaining them is greater than any benefit anyone is gaining
from them.
That seems rather sudden --- the package was not orphaned or any
obvious notification given that this was coming. The package has no
RC bugs filed. If this is about Qt 3, I would think it would have
been possible to neuter it by removing Qt support without destroying
the toolchain altogether.
There is not much time, but would anyone like to help revive it,
perhaps in an LSB 4 version?
If anyone is interested in adoping this package, and the ones related to
it, please get in touch with me, and we'll make it happen. The complete list
of related packages is:
lsb-appchk3
lsb-build-base3
lsb-build-cc3
lsb-pkgchk3
If anyone wants to create LSB 4 versions of these, please feel free to do so.
I'll be glad to share my experinces of having maintained the LSB 2 and LSB 3
versions, and hopefully steer you away from a couple of mistakes I made in
how I did these packages.
Stuart
Stuart R. Anderson anderson@netsweng.com
Network & Software Engineering http://www.netsweng.com/
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