Re: Unsupported packages for Wheezy LTS

[Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>]

Hi,
On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 05:44:36PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> [ Many people are on copy, please trim the list as appropriate when you reply ]
> 
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > These need to be discussed, since they will be a significant
> > time drain (e.g. are they in the sponsors's interests?). They
> > are supportable, but it will take a lot of work and sometimes
> > special domain knowledge:
> > 
> > icedove
> > iceweasel
> > qemu
> > qemu-kvm
> > xen
> > libvirt
> > ffmpeg -> libav
> > vlc
> > rails -> several split packages (only the 3.2 packages are supported in wheezy)
> 
> Nobody commented here but I believe that we should aim to support them.
> Except vlc, they are all used by some of the current sponsors (even though
> they are not currently supported in squeeze).
> 
> It would be good to identify Debian maintainers with the required "special
> domain knowledge" for all those packages so that they can be paid to
> take care of those packages when the need arises (cf
> https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts-details.html#join for
> details about requirement for paid contributors).
> 
> Thus putting the respective maintainers/maintainance team in copy (Mike
> Hommey for iceweasel, Guido Günther for multiple package, Christop Göhre for Icedove,
> Aurelien Jarno, Riku Voipio, Vagrant Cascadian for qemu, Michael Tokarev
> for qemu-kvm, Guido Trotter and Bastian Blank for Xen, Laurent Léonard
> for libvirt, Sebastian Ramacher and pkg-multimedia for libav/vlc).
> 
> Do you know someone from the Debian maintenance team or from the upstream
> project which could be hired a few hours from time to time to provide the
> required security updates on the above source packages when it gets too
> complicated for the LTS contributors? Feel free to pass around this email
> if you think of someone and want to inform him/her...

If we do iceweasel then icedove wouldn't be hard on top but I'll let
Christoph and Carsten (added to cc:) comment on this since I've not
done any real Icedove work since ages.

Cheers,
 -- Guido