Bug#945816: O: gnucobol -- COBOL compiler
[Al Stone] > For somewhat nostalgic reasons on my part, I'm looking at this package > and thinking about adopting it. It looks like the package has not > been touched in some time, but upstream still seems to be active > (commits within the last day, for example). I was recently in contact with one of the upstream developers, and he suggested uploading the release candidates to Debian. Perhaps worth a try, to get a fix for the CVEs into the package archive? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
Bug#945816: O: gnucobol -- COBOL compiler
[Al Stone] > Petter, if you'd rather adopt it, let me know. Otherwise, assuming > it is in reasonably decent shape to start with, which it seems to > be, I'll adopt it. Please go ahead and adopt it. I do not really have capacity for more packages. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
Bug#945816: O: gnucobol -- COBOL compiler
On 21 Apr 2020 08:23, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Ludwin Janvier] > > I intend to orphan the gnucobol package. > > Hi. I really enjoyed finding GNU Cobol in Debian, and hope it will stay > here for a long time. Unfortunately I do not have the capacity to > maintain it myself in Debian. > > Can you tell something about the problems with maintaining this package, > or what a future maintainer should keep in mind? > > I visited what I believe is the official IRC channel for the project, > irc://irc.oftc.net/#gnucobol, and there were no-one there, which I found > worrying. > -- > Happy hacking > Petter Reinholdtsen For somewhat nostalgic reasons on my part, I'm looking at this package and thinking about adopting it. It looks like the package has not been touched in some time, but upstream still seems to be active (commits within the last day, for example). Petter, if you'd rather adopt it, let me know. Otherwise, assuming it is in reasonably decent shape to start with, which it seems to be, I'll adopt it. -- Ciao, al -- Al Stone Debian Developer E-mail: a...@ahs3.nethttp://www.debian.org a...@debian.org --
Bug#945816: O: gnucobol -- COBOL compiler
[Ludwin Janvier] > I intend to orphan the gnucobol package. Hi. I really enjoyed finding GNU Cobol in Debian, and hope it will stay here for a long time. Unfortunately I do not have the capacity to maintain it myself in Debian. Can you tell something about the problems with maintaining this package, or what a future maintainer should keep in mind? I visited what I believe is the official IRC channel for the project, irc://irc.oftc.net/#gnucobol, and there were no-one there, which I found worrying. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
Bug#945816: O: gnucobol -- COBOL compiler
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hello, I intend to orphan the gnucobol package. Thanks. Ludwin Janvier The package description is: GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL) is a free, modern COBOL compiler. GnuCOBOL implements a substantial part of the COBOL 85, COBOL 2002 and COBOL 2014 standards and X/Open COBOL, as well as many extensions included in other COBOL compilers (IBM COBOL, MicroFocus COBOL, ACUCOBOL-GT and others). . GnuCOBOL translates COBOL into C and compiles the translated code using a native C compiler. . Build COBOL programs on various platforms, including GNU/Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. GnuCOBOL has also been built on HP/UX, z/OS, SPARC, RS6000, AS/400, along with other combinations of machines and operating systems. . While being held to a high level of quality and robustness, GnuCOBOL does not claim to be a “Standard Conforming” implementation of COBOL. . GnuCOBOL passes over 9600 of the NIST COBOL 85 test suite tests and over 750 internal checks during build.
