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 About once a month, I get a message from someone asking me to update it in Debian because well, it's out of date.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 It now seems that Aegir itself doesn't use the Drush package anymore because it is also out of date, as of Aegir 3.x. And Aegir 2.x ships its own Drush release: http://debian.aegirproject.org/pool/main/d/drush/ So there is really no point in keeping Drush in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.
