Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/30/2012 03:51 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I strongly object to this as a general principle: Debian freezing is no > excuse for hijacking! > That's not the reason, the reason is that we've been working on tools to improve PHP package quality, and recently noticed that php-codesniffer wa

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-29 Thread Bart Martens
On 12-05-30 at 02:49am, Thomas Goirand wrote: > we'd like to see the latest version in Wheezy OK, this request exists: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=599617 > We sent a mail 5 days ago to Jack Bates, and he didn't reply. It's > currently obvious that there's very few chances th

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-29 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 29.05.2012 21:51, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Seems you had several years of solving this issue, yet you waited until Similarly, the maintainer had 4 years to care about his package. > Did you consider an NMU? That might be an alternative, but looking at the current bug list people will a

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-05-30 at 02:49am, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Jack Bates is supposed to maintain php-codesniffer, [snip] > this package last upload was from 2008-10-05, [snip] > we'd like to see the latest version in Wheezy [snip] > We sent a mail 5 days ago to Jack Bates, and he didn't reply. It's > currently

Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, Jack Bates is supposed to maintain php-codesniffer, available from: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer Unfortunately, the PTS for this package shows that this package last upload was from 2008-10-05, few months after version 1.1.0 was released upstream (on the 2008-07-14). Upstream h