Le vendredi 14 octobre 2022 à 13:33 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : > On 14 October 2022 at 20:10, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > > Le dimanche 21 août 2022 à 09:17 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : > > > That is a problem, and it is somewhat know. ESS used to release every > > > six or > > > so months, now we are many years behind with no official release. Your > > > best > > > bet may be to install directly from melpa and removing the package. > > > > > > I will bring this to the ESS list but last time this was brought up > > > everybody > > > more or less agreed but no release tarball was made because "it's > > > complicated". > > > > Would you be willing to consider shipping a snapshot of the git > > repository (as is available on MELPA)? This would be a temporary > > solution until upstream finally makes a formal release. Otherwise it > > looks like ESS will not be part of bookworm… > > Correct. > > See https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/2022-September/thread.html > and _many_ earlier threads over the years bemoaning (in more polite words) > the irritating stale mate among that team and the inability to make a release > for four years now. (Mailmain archives are a pain to search but you know how > to condition a search engine to a site etc.) > > > Shipping a git snapshot is established practice in Debian, especially > > for situations like the present one. > > > > I am willing to help if needed. > > I don't actually speak (e)lisp so I cannot help, and I have no appetite > getting into issues with upstream. > > If you want to take over the package, I would welcome that and happily pass > it on to you. I was care taker for a while, but it may be time to pass that > torch on.
Thank you for your feedback, and for the good work you put into this package over the years! I’m going to take it over as you suggest. Amicalement, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ https://www.debian.org
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