On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <o...@debian.org> wrote:
[...] > > I see the following good ways out of this problem: > > A) Ron stays maintainer of src:global and uploads a reasonably recent 6.x > version to unstable; > B) (With or without an explicit decision by the TC), src:global is handed over > to new maintainers and they'd upload a reasonably recent 6.x version to > unstable; > > ( > In both A) and B) cases, whoever is maintainer of src:global would be in > charge of handling the subsequent (so far hypothetical) bugs in time for > the release. As usual, everyone is welcome to help with finding, > forwarding, and fixing bugs. > ) One suggestion to keep extra debian (non-upstream) functionality in global is to move it to another package package. The package would build on upstream htags and allows users to share their html cross-indexing via cgi-bin. As I understand it, the extra feature pertains to enabling access via web-server to html index of sources generated by htags. > > I see this as a suboptimal outcome, because it rewards inertia and stop- > energy: > > C) Ron stays maintainer of src:global and uploads a reasonably recent 6.x > version to experimental, with the explicit goal of making that version later > available through stretch-backports. > > -- > Cheers, > OdyX > > P.S. Sorry for the wall of text, including too many repetitions :/ > > [0] I know, it's all obvious. > [1] Yes, 6+ years, even at the Debian rhythm, is indefinite.
