Re: RM: arla -- RoQA; orphaned, RC-buggy, OpenAFS is an alternative

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Matej Vela <vela@debian.org> writes:

> retitle 358482 RM: arla -- RoQA; orphaned, RC-buggy, OpenAFS is an alternative
> reassign 358482 ftp.debian.org
> thanks

> I think we should remove arla.

>   * Orphaned for 5 months.
>   * 5 RC bugs, 16 bugs total.
>   * openafs-client et al. provide equivalent functionality; most of
>     the differences seem to be behind the scenes.  See discussion at:
>     <http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2005-December/020470.html>
>     <http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2005-December/020655.html>
>   * Already removed from testing.
>   * popcon: 218 installs, 191 votes.

I'd generally recommend people use OpenAFS instead of Arla on Linux (Arla
is more useful on the *BSD systems where there isn't an OpenAFS port), but
if anyone is interested in this one, note that nearly all of the RC bugs
would probably go away just by packaging the current version.  Upstream is
very active; the current version (0.43 -- Debian has 0.36.2) was released
June 8th.

I'm happy to sponsor uploads of Arla although I don't use it personally.
I'm happy to see more AFS software in Debian.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>