Bug#798500: Drush version in Debian package
On 2015-10-24 05:40:44, Jan Pobořil wrote: > Hello, > I would be likely to use Debian package for Drush, but it seems there are > too old version. Even in testing is old version 5.x, but currently actively > developed version is 8 and version is 5 is unsupported. > > see: http://docs.drush.org/en/master/install/ > > What is cause for this situation? Is package dead? Pretty much. Upstream has basically rewrote the whole distribution mechanism to depend on Composer, which made it very hard to package new versions, as composer isn't itself packaged in Debian (or wasn't, last i checked): https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=714118 I have therefore orphaned the package: https://bugs.debian.org/798500 I do not use drush anymore, either. You are welcome, of course, to take over the package! :) A. -- If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, The first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. - Gerald Weinberg
Bug#798500: Drush version in Debian package
> Pretty much. Upstream has basically rewrote the whole distribution > mechanism to depend on Composer, which made it very hard to package new > versions, as composer isn't itself packaged in Debian (or wasn't, last i > checked): > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=714118 > > I have therefore orphaned the package: > > https://bugs.debian.org/798500 So am I understand correctly that Composer package will be in repository soon? > I do not use drush anymore, either. You are welcome, of course, to take > over the package! :) I am just blind user of apt-get. But it will be much more possible to find somebody if there will be some guide how to pack Composer packages to deb clearly. Including solution for other dependencies what are only in Composer’s repository and how to make packages „system-global” not „user-global” (most „global” option Composer knows).
