That all sounds very reasonable. I have raised the issue with the upstream Zookeeper community to see if there is a demand for Zookeeper to be in Debian. Obviously, if there isn't any demand, then the process of recruiting a new Debian maintainer for ZK isn't worth the effort.
I will keep you guys aware. The twisted guys sounded like they would be interested at one time. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629856 On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Ian Jackson < ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > > And regardless of whether it ever built on MIPS, it clearly should not > have > > given that there isn't a 1.6 Java there. > > It seems that there is a packaging bug. That is, the FTBFS (Fails To > Build From Source) bug is a Debian-specific bug, introduced in the > Debian packaging, and not anything to do with your upstream code. > > Tollef says that he thinks the bug is RC (Release-Critical) for other > reasons. In Debian an RC bug is (broadly speaking) one which might > cause the package to be dropped from a release. >
