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

[Luca Capello]

clone 602697 -1
retitle -1 chef: remove from squeeze because of solr (#602697)?
found -1 0.8.16-4.1
block 602697 by -1
thanks

Hi there!

Cc:ing all the people that have interacted with this bug.

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:
>> > 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 - - it's already outdated a year by now (see bug #602696 )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
>
> 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.

>> 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.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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