Package: wnpp Severity: normal
I intend to orphan the prcs package. The package description is: PRCS, the Project Revision Control System, is the front end to a set of tools that (like CVS) provide a way to deal with sets of files and directories as an entity, preserving coherent versions of the entire set. . Its purpose is similar to that of SCCS, RCS, and CVS, but (according to its authors, at least), it is much simpler than any of those systems. . Emacs-Lisp support is distributed in a separate package, prcs-el. Another package called prcs-synch contains a tool to synchronize PRCS projects between repositories, both locally and remotely. . Homepage: http://prcs.sourceforge.net This package is practically dead upstream, even if its author claims that he still intend to work on it. I have dreamed for a long time of PRCS replacing CVS worldwide, which could have happened if PRCS2 would have come out. Instead of keeping waiting for that, I converted myself to Subversion and I must confess that I have no intention to use PRCS anymore. It is too bad, because PRCS is a very well written piece of software. Unfortunately, it is becoming a museum item. Under these circumstances it makes no sense for me to keep the maintainance of the Debian package. For those distressed about losing PRCS forever, I added a present in my last upload (version 1.3.3-3): a script, called prcs2svn, which converts a PRCS project in a Subversion repository. It is not perfect, but allows to store the history of your projects under PRCS control in a SVN repository. I also contributed it to the prcs project at SourceForge (but I am afraid it will never be released...). You can find the script either in the Debian package or at: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/prcs/prcs1/prcs1/contrib/prcs2svn/ The binary Debian packages being orphaned are the following: prcs prcs-el prcs-synch prcs-utils prcs-visualtree They are lintian-clean, apart a warning regarding CVS directories in the source tarball. There is a substantial amount of bug reports filled against the packages: 8 for prcs, 2 for prcs-el, and 2 for prcs-utils, and 1 for prcs-synch. 11 of them are tagged upstream and one relates to FTBFS on am64d using gcc 4.0 (there is a patch for it). Only one bug against prcs-el is pure-Debian. I was very pleased in maintaining the prcs package over 6 years. I wish good luck to the next maintainer! -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
