Bug#524135: Maintenance
[ Roger Meier ]
> From my perspective, the easiest way to maintain debian packaging
> would be the Thrift subversion repository itself.
>
> Issues can easily be addressed via JIRA and Packages can be made
> available on the Thrift website directly as long as they are not
> within official Debian releases.
>
> What are your thought's?
There are so many reasons this is not a good idea; I'm not really sure
where to begin.
For starters, I don't have access to Thrift's subversion repository and
patch submission would seriously inhibit my worflow. Likewise other
Debian Developers don't have access to Thrift's repo, while they do have
access to the collab-maint repo on git.debian.org. It's one thing to
impede my work, but impeding the work of others in the Debian community
means I will likely not get their help.
Even if access weren't a problem, colocating the packaging source in the
same VCS is still not an option because Debian package releases do not,
and should not occur in lockstep with Thrift releases.
Secondly, this bug report is for including Thrift in Debian. It's best
to think of this as more of an aggregate work created from the upstream
Apache project. Debian users are going to submit bugs to the Debian BTS
not JIRA, some of these will no doubt pertain to Thrift itself, but many
of them will pertain to the packaging and integration in Debian, and
have nothing to do with Thrift.
--
Eric Evans
eevans@debian.org
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