Hi Wouter, 2015-06-12 0:59 GMT+02:00 Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org>: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:38:29PM +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote: >> Hi Wouter, >> >> 2015-06-07 23:31 GMT+02:00 Wouter Verhelst <w...@uter.be>: >> > On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 07:43:30PM +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote: >> >> I think this situation still allows maintaining the packages in >> >> Debian, when (if ever) your contract ends and you don't want to >> >> maintain the packages in your free time you can orphan the packages. >> >> The next maintainer could adopt the packages then. >> > >> > Sure, in theory. There are, however, also a few practical reasons why I >> > don't want to go down that route (that is, the reasons why I chose to >> > allow beid be dropped from Debian in 2010 still apply). >> I have reread the thread twice but I could not find details of the >> practical reasons. > > That would be because they're not mentioned there :-) > >> Could you please share them? A link would be enough if I just missed it. > > - I don't want to have to deal with doing a maven build in a Debian > package. If you see what the packages' debian/rules do, ou'll see that > we cheat for eid-viewer. This does not sound like building a binary we could trust.
> - The packages exist mostly to support cards that have a limited > validity. When they're no longer valid, you return the old one and get > a new one. Sometimes, it happens that the newer cards have a bug, or > have a new feature, or some such, which means that the old version of > the software doesn't really work anymore, and you need a new one. > Having older versions in the archive for years after they stop working > turned out to be a support nightmare for upstream. I think with wheezy-backports the situation improved a lot. The application could check if *-backports is enabled and warn the user if it is not. You could keep updated versions in *-backports, thus avoiding the nightmare. Cheers, Balint -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAK0Odpw3o+o_Y06v=umnqa1vgabee8oxvhcoqo_7jv395zn...@mail.gmail.com
