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Bug#781569: marked as done (RM: gfarm(2fs) -- RoM; outdated (too old for "stable"), probably unsupported upstream)

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and subject line Re: Bug#781569: RM: gfarm(2fs) -- RoM; outdated (too old for "stable"), probably unsupported upstream
has caused the Debian Bug report #781569,
regarding RM: gfarm(2fs) -- RoM; outdated (too old for "stable"), probably unsupported upstream
to be marked as done.

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Package: release.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: rm

Dear release team,

Please consider removing the following packages from "testing":

	gfarm
	gfarm2fs

"gfarm" and "gfarm2fs" packages were last updated early 2011 (plus NMU in 
early 2012). Current version of Gfarm in Jessie (2.4) is too old and 
doesn't have data integrity features that were introduced in version 2.6.

Seemingly upstream do not support 2.4 any more (I've seen only references to 
VCS updates to 2.5 and 2.6).

Gfarm 2.6 is a very good distributed parallel storage system. IMHO at the 
moment (until LizardFS will be accepted from NEW) Gfarm is the best such 
system in Debian -- certainly better and more reliable than Ceph (I wish I 
knew that earlier so I wouldn't spend so much time fixing Ceph)...

Unfortunately Gfarm is still little known: current popcon score is only 18 for 
"gfarm" and 8 for "gfarm2fs" (I'm pretty sure my servers account for at least 
quarter of this score). IMHO it will be unfortunate if someone would try 
outdated Gfarm from Jessie and I doubt that 2.4 would be responsible for 
popcon growth. Besides I've never used version 2.4 and have no intention to 
use or to support it.

Therefore I recommend to remove outdated "gfarm" and "gfarm2fs" packages 
from "testing".

Thanks.

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On 2015-03-31 7:48, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:

On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 07:37:24 Adam D. Barratt wrote:

gfarm maintainer - any comment on the below?


I am the (only) maintainer, see #715446.
Earlier this year I've discovered Gfarm and took over its maintenance.
At the moment all new uploads (v2.6) are contained in "experimental" as per 
freeze policy:
Ah, I see, sorry - that wasn't particularly clear from the fact that you "suggested" removing the packages, at least in my part-way-through-first-coffee state. (Not helped by the fact that the maintainer in unstable and thus displayed by "dak rm" isn't you, for the reasons you explained above). 

Removal hints added.

Regards,

Adam

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