Bug#798500: Drush version in Debian package

[Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>]

On 2015-10-24 05:40:44, Jan Pobořil wrote:
> Hello,
> I would be likely to use Debian package for Drush, but it seems there are
> too old version. Even in testing is old version 5.x, but currently actively
> developed version is 8 and version is 5 is unsupported.
>
> see: http://docs.drush.org/en/master/install/
>
> What is cause for this situation? Is package dead?

Pretty much. Upstream has basically rewrote the whole distribution
mechanism to depend on Composer, which made it very hard to package new
versions, as composer isn't itself packaged in Debian (or wasn't, last i
checked):

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=714118

I have therefore orphaned the package:

https://bugs.debian.org/798500

I do not use drush anymore, either. You are welcome, of course, to take
over the package! :)

A.

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