On 10/12/2015 07:10 PM, Monty Taylor wrote: > On 10/12/2015 12:43 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: >> Excerpts from Thomas Goirand's message of 2015-10-12 05:57:26 -0700: >>> On 10/11/2015 02:53 AM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: >>>> Thomas, >>>> >>>> i am curious as well. AFAIK, cassandra works well with OpenJDK. Can you >>>> please elaborate what you concerns are for #1? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Dims >>> >>> s/works well/works/ >>> >>> Upstream doesn't test against OpenJDK, and they close bugs without >>> fixing them when it only affects OpenJDK and it isn't grave. I know this >>> from one of the upstream from Cassandra, who is also a Debian developer. >>> Because of this state of things, he gave up on packaging Cassandra in >>> Debian (and for other reasons too, like not having enough time to work >>> on the packaging). >>> >>> I trust what this Debian developer told me. If I remember correctly, >>> it's Eric Evans <[email protected]> (ie, the author of the ITP at >>> https://bugs.debian.org/585905) that I'm talking about. >>> >> >> Indeed, I once took a crack at packaging it for Debian/Ubuntu too. >> There's a reason 'apt-cache search cassandra' returns 0 results on Debian >> and Ubuntu. > > There is a different reason too - which is that (at least at one point > in the past) upstream expressed frustration with the idea of distro > packages of Cassandra because it led to people coming to them with > complaints about the software which had been fixed in newer versions but > which, because of distro support policies, were not present in the > user's software version. (I can sympathize)
This is free software. We don't need to ask for permission from upstream first. Thomas Goirand (zigo) __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
