Hi Jan-Pascal and Thomas, On 11/07/2010 21:37, Jan-Pascal van Best wrote:
> On 11/07/2010 11:38 AM, Thomas Koch wrote:
> > Package: solr
>
> > Severity: serious
>
> > Tags: squeeze
>
> >
>> I've written a mail ("Remove Solr from Squeeze?") on 2010/10/12 to
>> debian-java and the package's maintainer Jan-Pascal van Best and
>> proposed the removal of solr from Squeeze, mainly because:
>>
>> - it's already outdated a year by now (see bug #602696 )
>> - it doesn't even include all contribs (see bug #602695 )
>> - the package has accumulated too many bugs
>> - there doesn't seem to be enough (wo)man power to maintain the package
>> right now on a standard that would make it fit for Debian _stable_
>>
We[0] are currently using solr at Work. I have backported [1] the last version
to lenny for our own use and it's running on our production servers. So I'm
stepping forward to help packaging in anyway I can. I have some experience
packaging [2] but not with java apps.
>> So until nothing else happens, please don't include solr in Debian
>> squeeze.
>>
> Agreed. Solr is moving too fast, and accumulating too many dependencies
> (which have their own dependencies, and so on) to be maintained properly
> right now.
>
> Jan-Pascal
What is the priority? Upgrade the package to 1.4.1? Fix the issues on 1.4.0?
Thanks
[0] http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/
[1] https://github.com/linuxmaniac/bvmc_debian/tree/master/solr/
[2]
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=linuxmaniac%40torreviejawireless.org
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