Adrian Nuta <adrian.n...@manticoresearch.com> 于2018年8月30日周四 下午6:38写道： > > Hi YunQiang, > > Are you still maintaining the sphinxsearch deb package?
I just upload a minor version of Sphinx. Since I am not a heavy Sphinx user or developer, I guess I don't have enough knowledge to continue maintain it. > Sphinx was forked last year (by some users) as Manticore, which is maintained > by most of the team that worked on Sphinx. > Meanwhile, Sphinx got a major release, but it's only distributed as free > binaries, not open-source and the old, open-source version is not maintained > anymore. So the current 2.2.11 that is in debian repos is a software without > support (we offer help to sphinx users, but this goes inevitable to switch to > manticore,as we did a lot of progress since we forked and doesn't make sense > to maintain older versions). Our fork is gplv2 (as the original project) and > we continue from where the last open source version left. > > My question for you is if you are interested to be maintainer for a manticore > debian package, as you worked with the sphinx before. We did some upgrades to > our compiling scripts, as now it uses cmake and can generate packages. In the > past, there wasn't much attention on distros packages (as we offered them on > software website) and there was only a ppa maintained, but we want to bring > manticore to distribution repositories to make it easier for users. > > If not, could you guide us how to proceed: either to find a maintainer or > package ourselves? I guess guys on debian-devel may have a interesting. Hi, Debian folks, Who is heavy sphinx search user and have willing to maintain manticore? If so, just pick up this package. > > Best regards > > > -- > Adrian Nuta > Director of Support > http://www.manticoresearch.com > https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticore >
