Hi Dan e.a., Thanks a lot for getting in touch with Debian about this; much appreciated. I am currently working on packaging latest moodle & keeping it up to date in Debian unstable, see https://packages.debian.org/sid/moodle and especially http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/m/moodle/moodle_2.7.5+dfsg-1_changelog for what I did. At Tilburg University we are running moodle on some Debian systems; we have an interest in keeping it working for us. I basically took over the work from Thijs.
Op Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 07:47:17AM +0000 schreef Dan Poltawski:
> On 22 January 2015 at 06:34, Riley Baird
> <bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch> wrote:
> > P.S. I tried writing a message on the moodle forums to give them a heads
> > up on the situation, but the spam filter stopped me. It told me to send
> > my post to he...@moodle.org, so hopefully it will still get through.
>
> 'Upstream' here. Apologies that you got hit by a spam filter (I'm
> afraid we were getting hit quite aggressively by first time link
> spammers which is probably the cause of your filtering). Thank you
> very much for trying to get in touch with us.
>
> I've been cc'd on the Moodle debian bugs for quite some time and i'm
> afraid that this is a bit of a cycle with the package. Quite some time
> ago I was part of a team to keep up with keeping the package in order,
> but eventually could not keep on top of it - then others like Tomasz
> Muras and Thijs Kinkhorst have valiantly tried to get it in order. See
> #494642 #647489 #747084 etc.
>
> So much as it saddens me - I think this is the right course of action.
> There is little evidence to suggest that the package is widely used
> which makes it even less motivating for contributors for the
> significant amount of work it takes to keep up with our wide ranging
> upstream security fixes.
Yes, it is quite a lot of work; Thijs managed to keep the package in shape, I'm
convinced I can do it too. However, I don't think it's wise to offer moodle in
Debian stable: I can't promise to offer a secure moodle with Debian stable. If
other Debian people stand up and offer a hand, that might change <hint> <hint>
:)
Bye,
Joost
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