Bug#592450: hadoop: not ready for Debian Stable

[Thomas Koch]

Package: hadoop
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream
Justification: Policy 42.42.42

Hadoop will release version 0.21 very soon and for me it doesn't make
sense, to have a version of Hadoop in Debian Stable that's outdated from
day one.
The same applies for HBase, which depends on Hadoop. HBase is currently
undergoing a major rewrite of its master server.
Both projects have not yet released a 1.0 "stable" version and require
advanced knowledge to be run in production at the moment.
So we should not give the false impression that Hadoop or HBase are
apt-get install ready for everybody. Those who want to use them on
Squeeze should feel comfortable to use packages from testing and follow
the development.

The severity of this bug report is based on
http://release.debian.org/lenny/rc_policy.txt

"5. General

  (a) Supportable

    Packages in the archive must not be so buggy or out of date that we
    refuse to support them."