[Pkg-bazaar-maint] What to do with trac-bzr, bzr-xmloutput, bzr-pipeline

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 01:13:02PM -0400, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:33:45PM -0400, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> >> > I'm wondering what to do with these three packages that I orphaned about a year
> >> > ago. Nobody has picked them up and they have a relatively small install base
> >> > (popcon reports < 100 installs for each).
> >> >
> >> > Does anybody have any plans to take these over? Should we request removal of
> >> > them from unstable/jessie? Or should we just keep them around while they're not
> >> > too badly broken? At least trac-bzr and bzr-xmloutput FTBFS at the moment though,
> >> > because of upstream API changes in bzr.
> >>
> >> Thanks for bringing this up Jelmer. For now at least, I'd say let's
> >> keep them around.
> >>
> >> I'll get trac-bzr and bzr-xmloutput fixed shortly. I'll "re-adopt"
> >> them just so that the maintainer isn't Debian QA Group. That way it
> >> will keep them on the team's qa overview. I guess I'll change the
> >> Orphan bugs into RFAs.
> >
> > Great, thanks!
> >
> > Related, what would you like to do about bzr-git and bzr-fastimport? They're
> > both also orphaned, and at least bzr-fastimport is broken against 2.6 AFAIK.
> 
> I suppose I'll do the same there as well. Maybe it's time for me to
> put out a more general call for help in the Ubuntu Community? With
> bazaar being in use there for the foreseeable future, there ought to
> be a few more Ubuntu devs interested in pitching in...
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. I think such a call for help would be useful for Bazaar
in general. Of the packages in Debian, bzr-gtk, bzr-git, trac-bzr,
bzr-fastimport, bzr-search all seem to be without a maintainer at the moment.

Cheers,

Jelmer