On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 01:27:30PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On 8/4/21 11:54 AM, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > Hi Oswald, hi all,
> >
> > > the debian package is orphaned. it's better to build v1.4 from source.
> >
> > Really? I don't see it in the list
> > https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
>
> There is an open bug report against the isync package about a new upstream
> version since mid 2020 with no maintainer response
> (https://bugs.debian.org/963834). I added the people who are (were)
> responsible for isync to Cc. The last time an isync package was prepared for
> Debian was in 2018. (And later a security update by the security team.) So
> while it isn't officially orphaned I think the maintainers have lost their
> interest to care. There was no update since the (inital) buster release in
> July 2019. isync 1.3.1 was released in 2019, so there should have been
> plenty of time to update before the bullseye freeze.
No worries about my typo'ed e-mail address; I got the message because
I'm actually on isync-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. :-)
I never actually did a Debian release of isync. The reason why I got
added as a co-maintainer was because I used to do usptream work on
isync. It started with my submitting patches to speed up isync when
used on very long-latency links (such as the kind of satellite
networks found when I was cruising in the Carribean as Geek Cruise
speaker :-). I then started looking at various Debian bugs, and
fixing them up, and at some point the then-active maintainers added as
a co-maintainer.
But over time I got busy, and I started suffering random, occasional
e-mails lost when trying to sync multiple remote mailboxes on my
laptop and desktop machines. I never was able to debug it, and given
that I was super busy at that point, I ended up moving to offlineimap.
I think isync/mbsync is more flexible, and I do miss some of its
features. But whatever was going on that was causing my e-mail lost
was a real problem, and since I couldn't reliably reproduce it on
demand, I wasn't able to either fix it, or report it as a bug. :-(
As I understand things, it's not formally orphaned; it's just that
Nicolas and Alessandro hasn't active in doing package maintenance for
a while.
Cheers,
- Ted
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