Debian Bug report logs - #823767
RM: drush -- RoQA; not maintained in debian

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: RM: drush -- RoQA; not maintained in debian

Date: Sun, 08 May 2016 14:06:06 -0400

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

I have orphaned Drush about 9 months ago, and no one picked it
up. About once a month, I get a message from someone asking me to
update it in Debian because well, it's out of date.

The last request suggested that I remove it from Debian to make it
clear that Debian doesn't ship with Drush anymore and that upstream
has the correct way of installing the latest version.

So please remove drush from Debian unstable. I guess it could also be
removed from all suites as well, since there is absolutely no support
upstream for those prehistory releases.

For me packaging Drush was a step towards packaging Aegir. It now
seems that Aegir itself doesn't use the Drush package anymore because
it is also out of date, as of Aegir 3.x. And Aegir 2.x ships its own
Drush release:

http://debian.aegirproject.org/pool/main/d/drush/

So there is really no point in keeping Drush in Debian anymore.

Message #10 received at 823767@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: anarcat <anarcat@debian.org>

To: 798500@bugs.debian.org, 823767@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Jan Pobořil <honza@poboril.cz>, drush@packages.debian.org, rrs@researchut.com, 821674@bugs.debian.org, 821483@bugs.debian.org, 1530219@bugs.launchpad.net, Rafal W <kenorb@gmail.com>

Subject: drush will be removed from Debian

Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 14:21:29 -0400

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Hi,

In #823767, I have requested from the FTP-masters that Drush be removed
from Debian. In the ~9 months since it was orphaned, no one stepped up
to start maintaining the Drush package, let alone update it to a current
version. There was some movement on the Ubuntu side of things (also in
CC), but it seems it didn't end up going anywhere.

It seems clear to me no one is available to do that task and having an
outdated version of Drush in Debian is hurting both projects for no good
reason. At least that is the constant feedback I receive, both privately
and through the above bug reports.

So unless someone steps up *now* to tell the FTP-masters to stop, it
will be removed as soon as they take a look at bug #823767.

Thanks for your attention, and sorry for the wide {B,}CC.

A.

-- 
Le pouvoir n'est pas à conquérir, il est à détruire
                        - Jean-François Brient, de la servitude moderne

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Message #15 received at 823767-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 823767-close@bugs.debian.org

Cc: drush@packages.debian.org, drush@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#823767: Removed package(s) from unstable

Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 18:21:39 +0000

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

     drush |   5.10.0-2 | source, all

------------------- Reason -------------------
RoQA; not maintained in debian
----------------------------------------------

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next
dinstall run at the earliest.

Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is
really needed, please contact them if this should be the case.

We try to close bugs which have been reported against this package
automatically. But please check all old bugs, if they were closed
correctly or should have been re-assigned to another package.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 823767@bugs.debian.org.

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