[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#748737: Bug#748737: Bug#748737: Bug#748737: Bug#748737: rt4-extension-assettracker: fails to upgrade from wheezy

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 11:07:50AM -0400, Shawn Moore wrote:
> Hi Jerome et al,
> 
> (Hi! I’m Shawn, one of the upstream engineers on Request Tracker)
> 
> > 2015/09/04 17:09、Jerome Charaoui <jerome at riseup.net> のメール：
> > 
> >>> Is this a good place to suggest Best Practical's own RT::Extension::Assets (http://bestpractical.com/assets) as a candidate for packaging?
> > 
> > The recommended pratice is to submit an RFP [2].
> 
> The next major version of RT (4.4) will begin including what was RT::Extension::Assets as a core Assets feature, so it would certainly be easiest just to wait for that.

I realise that since I've been sitting on the packaging task for months
I'm not really in a good position to say this, but the advantage of Assets
as an extension is that it exists and is usable now.

It's interesting to hear that you're planning on making Assets core for
4.4. Will that be schema-compatible with the out of tree version? Do
you have a timeline for relese of 4.4 yet?

For users of Debian stable, packaging Assets to then deploy via
backports is still likely to be a useful option even when 4.4 is
released, because 4.4 is a bigger jump and won't be supported in a stable
Debian release for some time.

Cheers,
Dominic.