[DRE-maint] chef: remove from squeeze because of solr (#602697)? (was Re: Bug#602697: chef-solr depends on solr)

[Luca Capello]

Package: chef
Version: 0.8.16-4.2

Hi there!

Adding debian-release@ to the cc: given that this is (no more) an RC
bug, please read the background in the BTS.

On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:47:41 +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> Cc:ing all the people that have interacted with this bug.

Done again, please forgive me if you are no more interested in it.

> On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:52:24 +0100, Thomas Koch wrote:
>> Adam D. Barratt:
>>> On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 11:38 +0100, Thomas Koch wrote:
>>> > 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
>>
>> to the maintainer of Chef in Debian,
>>
>> this is just to inform you, that there is a recommendation from me to remove 
>> the solr package from Debian. However since chef-solr does depend on solr, 
>> you'd affected by this removal.
>
> Some hints about the chef package in Debian:
>
> - Debian has (6-month-old) 0.8.16-4.1, while upstream is at 0.9.12
> - popcon show 41 installation (2 recent) for the chef binary package and
>   2 (0 recent) for the chef-solr binary package
> - there is an RC bug for chef-solr (#604231, installation fails because
>   of nodedown)
>
> Thus, I think the best thing would be to remove chef from squeeze (new
> bugs created), so then we can remove solr as well.

No need anymore to remove chef from squeeze, given that after its
maintainer hint I uploaded the 0.8.16-4.2 NMU which removes any -server*
and -solr package.

This is the reason why I closed this bug with the NMU version.

>>> 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.
>
> Given that chef-solr was not in lenny, the above applies to solr only.
> However, I should say that I do not know at all a good migration path.

This still stands, but I am no solr expert, sorry.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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