Bug#602697: should not be included in squeeze

Adam D. Barratt adam at adam-barratt.org.uk
Sun Nov 7 12:53:10 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 11:38 +0100, Thomas Koch wrote:
> I've written a mail ("Remove Solr from Squeeze?") on 2010/10/12 to
> debian-java and the package's maintainer Jan-Pascal van Best and
> proposed the removal of solr from Squeeze, mainly because:
> 
> - - it's already outdated a year by now (see bug #602696 )
> - - it doesn't even include all contribs (see bug #602695 )
> - - the package has accumulated too many bugs
> - - there doesn't seem to be enough (wo)man power to maintain the package
>   right now on a standard that would make it fit for Debian _stable_
> 
> So until nothing else happens, please don't include solr in Debian
> squeeze.

The package has a reverse-dependency in testing already, so can't be
removed right now:

Checking reverse dependencies...
# Broken Depends:
chef: chef-solr

It's also in lenny (albeit in contrib) so if it were removed then a
migration path for those users to a replacement would be good.

Regards,

Adam






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