On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 19:27:37 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 23:26:22 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > we (the debian X Strike Force) are thinking of removing the following > > packages from the archive, unless somebody steps up (soon) to take care > > of them. > > I assume here you mean maintaining them in Debian (or perhaps upstream > too?). > If they're maintained upstream the XSF can probably keep maintaining the packages.
> > The reason is they see 0 testing, nobody maintains them > > upstream, if you're lucky people keep some of them building when APIs > > change, if you're very lucky they get a release with all the build fixes > > once in a while, and it's likely most of them don't have any users > > anymore. > > Several of the below modules are claimed as maintained in upstream's > MAINTAINERS file. If that's not the case I guess it would be nice to > get that updated so that it's clear what's the status on them and so > other people can step up there if they feel like it. > I admit I didn't cross-check against the MAINTAINERS file. But at least some that are listed as maintained there were removed in X11R7.7: http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xorg-docs/ReleaseNotes.html#Removed_in_this_Release > > While it would probably be easy to get them to stop FTBFS > > right now, it doesn't seem worth it to keep all of those drivers around > > with the maintenance overhead that comes with that if nobody's going to > > notice anyway. > > Sure, although several of them have newer releases upstream or fixes > in master that make them build from source. > Getting the packages to build this time isn't a big issue. But if these drivers get no testing I think it's better to not ship them than to ship them broken. And if they have no users then time spent maintaining/fixing them could be better spent elsewhere. > > So please speak up if you want to see one of these in jessie. > > I'll keep an eye on the tdfx one upstream. If it got to be removed > from Debian, I might consider taking over maintainership here. > Thanks. > > xserver-xorg-video-voodoo > > Maintained upstream. New release builds. > The last change from Alan (who's listed as maintainer) was 5 years ago... > > xserver-xorg-video-chips > > xserver-xorg-video-glint > > xserver-xorg-video-i128 > > xserver-xorg-video-i740 > > xserver-xorg-video-rendition > > xserver-xorg-video-tdfx > > xserver-xorg-video-tga > > xserver-xorg-video-tseng > > Maintained upstream. Master builds. > I think that's yet another case of MAINTAINERS being outdated. Cheers, Julien
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