On Tuesday 11 December 2007 00:59:36 Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > The 'electric' package has been orphaned for a very long time now (in > fact, it's one of the oldest orphaned packages in Debian). I'm going > through such packages, to see if they can be safely removed from Debian, > since noone seems to care about them. > > You are receiving this mail because your name showed up somewhere in the > history of the package, or because I think that you might be interested > for some reason, or because you maintain a related/similar package. Are > you interested in adopting this package? Do you know potential adopters? > If so, could you forward them this mail, Ccing the BTS and me? > > With no action from anyone, I'll request the removal of this package > from Debian after a month. There are two versions of electric: * C implementation -- old and stable, but no new development * Java implementation -- new and maintained, but license issues The C implementation is the only one in Debian. To my knowledge, it works as well as it ever did, has no RC bugs, and the bugs that exist are pretty trival, so I don't see a good reason to *remove* it, as there may still be users depending on it, and there are really NO alternatives that do anything close to the same thing. For reasons I outlined, the Java version of electric was problematic to package. I don't know if it still is, because I haven't looked at it in a long time, so it's possible all of the problems are resolved. Anyway, I don't personally have time to maintain electric (either version) at the moment. The best path forward would be for a really interested party to go work the Java implementation's license issues (if they still remain) and package that (probably into contrib, since it probably only works with Sun's Java). But if no one steps up, and the remove-everything-that- isn't-actively-maintained nazis REALLY want to remove it, so be it. I don't use the software anymore myself. =( -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> <xmpp:wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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