On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Ted Dunning wrote: > > Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> writes: > >> There has been a bit of talk about Apache Zookeeper recently by Thomas > >> Koch. He has a bad opinion of Zookeeper and things it is "not good > >> enough for Debian". > > > > Could you please provide a reference? > > How about this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/06/msg00316.html
Ah, now I understand the whole deal better. I won't judge zookeeper, but it is pretty clear it is about to be orphaned, and that it needs a new team maintaining the Debian package if it is to remain in Debian. It *is* too complex a package, it is not the kind of thing to foster on Debian QA. It will have to be dropped if a new maintainer doesn't step up eventually. As usual, it will be up to its new maintainer team to decide whether zookeeper is indeed going to be security-maintainable across a Debian stable release (which means 3 years of backporting security fixes). And to convice the release manager of it (which is usually not a problem at all, unless the package has a very bad track record, etc). Upstream *CAN* help arrange for this to be much easier on their downstream Debian maintainers, e.g. through a long-term-support release at the appropriate time (i.e. before Debian freezes Squeeze). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110613010730.gb22...@khazad-dum.debian.net