Hello Peter, Peter Van Eynde <pvane...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > With regret I'll copy the message that I've put on my blog: > >> After some consideration I must conclude that the state of the Common Lisp >> packages in Debian is becoming unreasonable. One of the goals of forming the >> pkg-common-lisp team was that I would not be a bottleneck, as RL is >> inflicting more and more damage to my 'Debian playtime'. >> >> Now that Luca left I'm basically the only 'active' (for very small values of >> active) DD/DM left. (no hard feeling towards anybody, just loads of thanks >> for the work they did) >> >> I see two alternatives: >> >> >> * other people get involved, investigating bugs and sending >> git/darcs/whatever format patches. >> >> * we go low impact and remove common-lisp-controller and all Common Lisp >> libraries, and I/we only package the lisp implementations (clisp, ecl, sbcl, >> cmucl and perhaps ccl) without any special changes >> >> >> >> I don't expect the first alternative to be realistic, so unless proven wrong >> I'll RFA/RM all the libraries/clc on the 5th of September. > > Groetjes, Peter >
first of all, I'd like to thank all of the team members for their work, as it helped me a lot to get started with CL. I would like to contribute as I regularly build a number of packages from different repositories for internal use in our company. However, I have no idea of what is necessary to maintain the packages, 'officially'. Could you please comment on the work which has to be done? How often does one have to update the packages? Are there tools which help? How does one test the compatibility of the different packages? And (most important) how much time should a candidate have, to be able to fulfill his 'duties'? I know that much of the answers cannot be exact, but I just would like to have an idea of the amount of work. Thank you Kambiz Darabi _______________________________________________ pkg-common-lisp-devel mailing list pkg-common-lisp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-common-lisp-devel
