Salut Seb,
On 14 October 2022 at 20:10, Sébastien Villemot wrote: | Hi Dirk! | | Le dimanche 21 août 2022 à 09:17 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : | > That is a problem, and it is somewhat know. ESS used to release every six or | > so months, now we are many years behind with no official release. Your best | > bet may be to install directly from melpa and removing the package. | > | > I will bring this to the ESS list but last time this was brought up everybody | > more or less agreed but no release tarball was made because "it's complicated". | | Would you be willing to consider shipping a snapshot of the git | repository (as is available on MELPA)? This would be a temporary | solution until upstream finally makes a formal release. Otherwise it | looks like ESS will not be part of bookworm… Correct. See https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/2022-September/thread.html and _many_ earlier threads over the years bemoaning (in more polite words) the irritating stale mate among that team and the inability to make a release for four years now. (Mailmain archives are a pain to search but you know how to condition a search engine to a site etc.) | Shipping a git snapshot is established practice in Debian, especially | for situations like the present one. | | I am willing to help if needed. I don't actually speak (e)lisp so I cannot help, and I have no appetite getting into issues with upstream. If you want to take over the package, I would welcome that and happily pass it on to you. I was care taker for a while, but it may be time to pass that torch on. Amicalement, Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
