On Fri, Mar 02 2012, Simon McVittie wrote: > Package: aegis > Version: 4.24.3-3 > Severity: normal > User: [email protected] > Usertags: proposed-removal > > aegis seems like a possible candidate for removal from Debian: > > * no upstream release for around 2 years
I think the above argument is not valid, a package can be *useful* even if it's not recent or actively maintained anymore. Aegis is still actively maintaned but it's, IMHO, features complete, being released the first time in 1991, so the frequency of releases is low. BTW Debian still distribute rcs-5.7 (released in 1995) > * two long-standing (1 year old) grave bugs True, being part of the development team I've been short of spare time to fix the bugs. > * many alternatives exist (it appears to be a distributed version control > system competing with early DVCSs like Arch, Bitkeeper, Monotone; those > DVCSs have largely been superseded by git, bzr and Mercurial) Aegis DVCS features are an afterthought, the real strength of Aegis is support for code review and tdd, however with an interface from the early '90 (command line). The only modern tool I know that seems to have similar features is gerrit (http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/). > If the two grave bugs 610984, 610985 do not, in your opinion as maintainer, > qualify for "grave" severity ("makes the package in question unusable > or mostly so, or causes data loss, or introduces a security hole"), please > change their severity to something more appropriate. I don't know enough > about aegis to judge what their severity should be. I'll do that and will try to find the time to fix it. [...] > Regards, > smcv Thank's your work on Debian :-) -- Walter Franzini http://aegis.stepbuild.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
