Bug#986740: forked-daapd : please package new upstream release

[Sébastien Noel <sebastien@twolife.be>]

Le 2023-09-16 18:06, Bastian Germann a écrit :

> I am happy to review and sponsor your upload.
> Please add yourself as Uploader and keep it in the Multimedia Team.
> Also, please rename the binary package to owntone.
> There is a Debian package available from upstream:
> https://github.com/owntone/owntone-apt
> Maybe you can use parts of it.

Thank you for the proposal. I already have made the ajustements
to upgrade forked-daap to the newest owntone release,
but I'm not happy with it, and after a long thought I think it's best
to simply removed the software from the Debian archive.

The software in Debian is currently crippled due to the impossibility
to rebuild the web interface (based on the Vue.js framework with,
as usual in the JS world, a "not small" dependency tree).
The proper way of dialing with this (ie packaging all the missing
javascript modules) is more of a crusade than a weekend project.

I consider that shipping a software without half of the functionalities
is a disservice to our users, and an "insult" to upstream developer.
Upstream has already a pipeline that produce a complete package,
we should not pretend that we are doing better than them, specifically
if all we can deliver is a broken version.

Best regards,
Sébastien