[Pkg-openldap-devel] Re: the .org proposal or "join forces"

[Torsten Landschoff]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:41:01PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
 
> The "experts" here probably is the maintainers of the ldap package
> itself, as this is more of a social challenge than a technical one.

I don't see a social or technical problem with your suggestions. 
The problem here is that I don't really have time to maintain OpenLDAP 
anymore and Matthijs Mohlmann wanted to take over the package. 

I'll send your email to pkg-openldap-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org. 
Perhaps he has something to say about this.


> Torsten: The issue discussed here is that Debian-edu maintains a
> separate bug tracking system for its fork of openldap, and wether it
> would be possible to work more closely with Debian. It is my
> understanding[1] that the concrete reason to fork openldap for the
> Woody-based Skolelinux is no longer relevant, but if new hacks would be
> needed for a sarge-based debian-edu today, how would you then feel
> about making room for a specially-featured variant of your package
> released for experiemental? If you didn't want the extra burden
> yourself then a possible approach would be making the package
> team-maintained and let others deal with the different bugreports and
> prepare the experimental package for you to upload.

As long as whoever does the changes takes the responsibility to fix
arising problems I don't see why this shouldn't work.

> I am aware that the use of experimental is a hack (what to do if
> debian-edu and debian-tiny wants different forks of same package?), but
> I see that as a positive challenge within Debian, rather than the
> current situation of Debian-edu IMO drifting off from Debian (bugs
> filed at one BTS may apply to the other as well).
 
I think it would be good to consider Debian based distributions as
branches and merge in the improvements they developed at some point. 
Sadly it is quite hard to merge Debian packages because there is no 
common revision control system. I often would like to just run a 
simple merge command to pull the changes of some other guy. This is
often not possible :(

Greetings

	Torsten
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