Bug#767470: unblock: freeipa/4.0.4-2
On 2014-11-01 15:01, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> [...]
>
> Well, I hope you can reconsider. I've been working on FreeIPA for three
> years now, and the biggest blocker for getting it in shape was Dogtag
> which got in sid a week+ before (didn't want to push v9 back in 2012
> because it was native code and being rewritten to java for v10). Getting
> this far took almost a year, packaging all the dependencies for
> RESTEasy, and then when Dogtag v10.2 was determined to be the best
> choice for jessie it meant adding some new jackson-* love in the mix..
>
> FreeIPA itself is little else than a bunch of plugins for 389-ds-base,
> wrappers for setting up
> 389/Bind/Apache/Dogtag/NTP/MIT-KDC/SSSD/Certmonger, and a web-based UI
> for all of this. So my devbox had the python crap already on it because
> of the build-deps and I forgot to add them to the server package too. I
> still think it's a bit harsh to not let it in jessie because of this. In
> fact it could be one of the killer-features of jessie, since Debian
> would be the first distro to have the server ported from Fedora. And to
> get there it took some effort to persuade upstream to add the necessary
> plumbing so that the port was possible without (too) crazy distro patches.
>
> HTH
>
Hi Timo,
I realise that this may be quite frustrating to you. However, I cannot
give you special treatment in this regard without extending the same
"courtesy" to several others. I hope you can understand that this is
very undesirable to us as it would effectively push back the announced
freeze date.
Yours truly,
~Niels
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