Le mercredi, 7 décembre 2016, 08.49:57 h CET Russell Stuart a écrit :
> Why not have a formal rule that says if a package in Debian is out of
> date for more than one release cycle any DD can package it under a
> different name, after going through the usual ITP procedures coupled
> with a bug report to the original package citing the ITP and a delay?
> It's not like we don't do the parallel versions bit now - squid /
> squid3, exim / exim4 and so on.
Or just the same, but without too many formalities:
If one feels the source package isn't kept up-to-date enough, she can "just"
file an ITP for a new source package name, pointing to hir attempts at
convincing the existing maintainers. As ITPs are CC'ed to -devel, it becomes a
matter of cultural shift in how we (and FTP Master, Release Team, etc) accept
parallel versions in the archive (same software in different source & binary
package names).
With snapshots.debian.org and LTS in place, we could also start accepting that
there is a variety of cases where it's entirely fine to instruct users to
install versions from past stable versions. (lsb-desktop in Wheezy had such
instructions, if one needed to get Qt3, e.g.)
--
Cheers,
OdyX
