On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 07:47:19PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > >Johanathan, > >If you want to help, as indicated by one of your last sentences in >your RM request, then reupload the package without that .jar. That >.jar is of tertiary importance for the package's overall >functionality, it can just go. I do not perceive your RM request as >any helpful or as constructive by any means. Time is a scarce >resource. If you want Free Software to be successful in all phases of >one's life, then please allow for compromises not only on the >developer's side, but also with experimental packages from time to >time. > >My next upload of this package will be a new version of that package, >hopefully also with a new dedicated maintainer, without that .jar. If >you manage to have the Ensembl package removed now, then you indicate >a severe disinterest by the Debian community into all what the >Ensembl package stands for. It would mean quite a blow to me.
Steffen, At the moment it seems the Ensembl package stands as a good example of abandoned RC-buggy software in the Debian archive. I entirely agree with Jonathan's request to remove it based on what he's seen here. Looking at 2 of the 3 other RC bugs, I don't see any maintainer activity in months. If you're going to upload packages into the Debian archive, please try to keep them up to an acceptable quality. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." -- Linus Torvalds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
