On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Sam Bisbee <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 26 Apr 2011, at 17:09, Jens Rantil wrote: >> >>> I have noticed that there is very little activity on Debian packaging of >>> Apache CouchDB. The latest version of is 0.11.0 for both Debian stable, >>> unstable and testing. >> >> This is depressing. I thought some people had stepped up to maintain this >> package. What happened with that. Are you peeps still out there? > > Yup, I'm right here. :) > > What happened was Debian's release policies and technical committee > flew in the face of everything we were trying to do. They weren't even > supposed to release 0.11 into stable according to their guidelines > because stepping to it from 0.8 was going to break code. They wanted > me to back port security fixes from 0.11 and 1.x into 0.8. Then they > got upset that 0.8 ever made it into stable. THEN the whole > desktop-couch and Ubuntu initiative somehow took over. To summarize, I > became disinterested in maintaining the package under Debian, but > might be interested in maintaining a separate one. > > I believe I spoke with Sergei that I was stepping back, but that could > be a faulty memory. I assume that Sergei hasn't been working on it and > that Debian's release team auto-pushed 0.11 into stable. > > These days I just install from source. Like I said, I could be coerced > into offering unofficial .deb's, but would be more interested in > seeing either CouchDB or a supportive company picking up the fight > with or without my help. >
Couchbase has a .deb. No idea if it works on Debian though. :-) Is there anything like launchpad for debian? Till
