On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:38:29PM +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote: > Hi Wouter, > > 2015-06-07 23:31 GMT+02:00 Wouter Verhelst <w...@uter.be>: > > On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 07:43:30PM +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote: > >> I think this situation still allows maintaining the packages in > >> Debian, when (if ever) your contract ends and you don't want to > >> maintain the packages in your free time you can orphan the packages. > >> The next maintainer could adopt the packages then. > > > > Sure, in theory. There are, however, also a few practical reasons why I > > don't want to go down that route (that is, the reasons why I chose to > > allow beid be dropped from Debian in 2010 still apply). > I have reread the thread twice but I could not find details of the > practical reasons.
That would be because they're not mentioned there :-) > Could you please share them? A link would be enough if I just missed it. - I don't want to have to deal with doing a maven build in a Debian package. If you see what the packages' debian/rules do, ou'll see that we cheat for eid-viewer. - The packages exist mostly to support cards that have a limited validity. When they're no longer valid, you return the old one and get a new one. Sometimes, it happens that the newer cards have a bug, or have a new feature, or some such, which means that the old version of the software doesn't really work anymore, and you need a new one. Having older versions in the archive for years after they stop working turned out to be a support nightmare for upstream. > I for example maintain a repository for kodi for for more than a half > year because it sits in the NEW queue and I can't tell how happy I > would be if I could stop building it for amd64, i386 and mipsel (which > is really slow) again and again and I also have to tell armhf users to > wait for official builds because I don't have the HW to build it. > > I see eid-mw is built on for i386 and amd64, while I assume it would > build and work perfectly on arm* laptops and computers as well: > https://files.eid.belgium.be/debian/pool/main/e/eid-mw/ > > Cheers, > Balint > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/CAK0Odpx8uSd=bjbpqyaytsm3vjmm4uj3tzhx3mftpndu1cw...@mail.gmail.com > > -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150611225951.ga18...@grep.be