On 26 Apr 2011, at 18:17, Sam Bisbee wrote: > 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.
This is depressing. There is a lot of bureaucracy in Debian, which is one of the reasons I stopped maintaining my packages. I hope someone else takes up the challenge, because having CouchDB was a massive boon to the project.
