Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
On 03/10/08 at 15:21 +0200, Olivier Berger wrote:
Le vendredi 03 octobre 2008 à 12:43 +0200, Thomas Viehmann a écrit :
It does not seem to have reverse dependencies. There are a few users
(double digit popcon), but not exceedingly many.
As it is on the servers, I assume a single mailing-list manager may have
thousands of users... so popularity contest may not be relevant here
AFAICT.
Right.
I find it annoying that after the sympa-drama before the etch release,
we are now likely to run into another sympa-drama. Sympa is not an
unmaintained software package: upstream is active, responsive and AFAIK
willing to help. There's absolutely no reason why sympa should be in a
crappy state in Debian.
At the time I took over Sympa maintenance the scripts were written in
a convoluted and complicated manner. To be honest, this hasn't changed
much.
If I would've been any wiser (and enough time to spent), I would started
Sympa packaging from scratch. As a side note, file inclusion in Sympa
configuration is a missing feature as packaging is concerned.
In #354355 (the "etch sympa-drama bug"), Stefan Hornburg refused several
times to consider co-maintainance for sympa. I'm not sure if Jean
Charles Delepine is still interested in co-maintaining it, but maybe we
should try to convince Stefan to accept co-maintainance now.
Maybe we could even avoid a sympa problem before the squeeze release.
Jean seems to be vanished from the radar.
Jonas Smeedegard put an effort for better Sympa packaging on git.debian.org.
It's quite likely that I team up with him after Lenny release.
Regards
Racke
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