Bug#445119: This package is two years old

[Michael Koch]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:49:38PM +0200, Encolpe Degoute wrote:
> Arnaud Vandyck a écrit :
> > On 10/3/07, Encolpe Degoute <encolpe.degoute at free.fr> wrote:
> >> Julien Cristau a écrit :
> >>> You'll need some justification if you want to make this a critical bug.
> >>> The whole system doesn't get broken just because this particular package
> >>> is a bit old.
> >> The goal was to awake mainteners... It seems to work.
> > 
> > No it doesn't, I don't consider this bug serious and I merge it with
> > two other bugs that were asking for new upstream.
> > 
> > When you'll have your head in the build system and the hell
> > dependencies, maybe you'll understand how a pain it is to package
> > argouml. See the mdr license and source problem for example.
> 
> As see with argouml developers, 0.24 is not compilable for now and
> there's no maintenance branch for it, only a unstable development branch.
> Can you envisage to drop argouml out of Debian ?
> The goal is to remove an outdated and obsolete package. Perhaps in few
> years we will have an argouml release that would be packagable.

How does upstream build argouml when its not buildable according to you?
Perhaps using icedtea for building will solve all issues. icedtea will
(hopefully) be soon included in Debian.


Cheers,
Michael