[CCing yada maintainer, to avoid going behind his back with this] I would like to propose a release goal for wheezy of removing yada from Debian:
http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/RemoveYada While accepting that this may attract some controversy, and while supporting the principle that package maintainers should be responsible for technical decisions about their packages, I believe bug #334164 (regarding yada modifying debian/control files during build) should be considered serious by the release team. Additionally, many packages using yada break Policy 12.5 (regarding debian/copyright files in source packages). Many packages that rely on yada are maintained by NMU; and use of yada can cause problems for others looking to help with these packages. Given the availability of other, more widely used helper tools, I believe it is less work to migrate the packages currently using yada to different systems than it is to fix these problems. I am happy to advocate this goal, and will update the wiki page with a BTS usertag if there is agreement from the release team. Kind regards, -- Tim Retout <dioc...@debian.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADc0ge95o2FW3yrkAN5iCHGrbr+mAxj-Yk1H1bcvKthsDjoQ=g...@mail.gmail.com
