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Hello, GNU Global is currently "freezed" in Debian at version 5.7.1 which is 8+ years old. Many improvements and bugs were fixed in more recent versions. Also, many frontends now expect a newer versions of global (new flags for the command-line tools) and therefore the version currently in Debian is difficult to use. Ron Lee is the current maintainer and disagrees on some issues with upstream and therefore don't want to update to a more recent version. See bug #574947: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574947 The main issue seem to be around the CGI scripts. I believe that most users don't care about those. Upstreams is OK to not have the scripts packaged in Debian. There seems to be other issues but it is quite unclear what they are. Bug #816924 is about the same thing but Ron didn't participate at all: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=816924 I suppose that Ron may not accept to update the package even if the tech committee overrules him. In this case, Punit Agrawal accepts to take over the maintainance of the package and already produced some packages for newer versions. Those packages would remove the CGI scripts. Could the technical committee: 1. Mediate this issue with Ron to get him to accept package a newer upstream version. 2. If unsucessful, overrule Ron on the decision to package a new upstream version. 3. If Ron doesn't want to package himself a new upstream version, transfer the ownership of the package to Punit. I'll sponsor the uploads and assist him in this task. There are other possibilities like a different package "global6". However, it is unsure if Ron would accept to collaborate on this (notably with the alternative system): https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574947#166 "global6" could also conflict/replace global instead of using alternatives. However, it is unclear if global6 can be considered as replacing global. We don't know if Ron would agree to that. If he doesn't, another possibility for the technical committee would be to overrule him and allowing global6 to conflict/replace global. Thanks. - -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental-debug'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIvBAEBCAAZBQJYB2qfEhxiZXJuYXRAZGViaWFuLm9yZwAKCRCVpC/oNTUl+QPX D/9qr7DxEERMZP5Pz1tKnf5KrW8Ko94edmvYXs5Iw7qamUUlX+M+4HSCW6K4toUr /R2SPRMmUgl85t88BgEfxCKo+j01ZIgcdCvvq3k4ZMmejXqvn/gl9YEkq7FmqS53 cBQJTUGERwHBkIBU3+gikUc77ORW+qVBg8+5gMY3lwWhQe8o+zBmRW2519AHWLVa Pcs+Xgk2ortnxFj+En4zz7fTooRoZDD1gvGhmmXEWaQ2wjbE2g4R6mMaDQ6JByBR QnF/AdwfDODrMD1wpW2EhpYSMwmDVCsPYneSpbNl2CMnVsA/CiPIiqpHuAkKq4cZ GgRhdGY+lCFzkXeI759gCY6gmMvsXLRyTBYSnUwHwRiSgHxyR9TlEaFPzG8k8wz7 b88XcKMrQek7uWVhlCoKm1bdaoiHFcGjwKc+cjTnGmKHVcpiXQuZI8mTv9B34nsJ 2LHcE9GxU3FOOkWmOLBtI4tkfJlmXxGdUzD/8a4kIZibpbIvC/qrCyaQQsp33/U1 UdXJOqsaB7ghGKlsHbw+ZGK8a9lqaxqtR3Tm+Wu/kB6/h+zZ9miRUfRrAygIMgJd aRKkNZ8FCC6VnkBdn2WKGoxrRo2ZohCNkZ0Ls7ed9RenwXU1eJvzvTrrWUpwyL1K wrSB5i0RRLkLQzUB/fmKbaPjU2OzuH4qsc1xLU9AqRfgcw== =lWow -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
