• Remove trac from Debian 11?

    From Andrius Merkys@21:1/5 to Martin on Mon May 10 13:10:01 2021
    Hi Martin,

    On 2021-05-10 13:35, Martin wrote:
    trac is a long-time Debian package, uploaded first by Jesus
    Climent in 2004. I like the traditional look of Trac and its
    climate-friendly resource usage :-)

    Now, while Trac is still maintained upstream and has been ported
    to Python 3 recently, development slowed down since long and the
    current 1.5.x release series is not yet "there".

    I wonder, whether the package should be part of Debian 11, or
    better miss one stable release and have it in better shape for
    Debian 12.

    If nobody objects, I'll file a bug to keep it out of Debian 11.

    I do not think that slowing down of development is reason serious enough
    to remove a package which is otherwise fine. Or are there other reasons
    that I am not aware of?

    Best,
    Andrius

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  • From Martin@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 10 13:00:02 2021
    Dears,

    trac is a long-time Debian package, uploaded first by Jesus
    Climent in 2004. I like the traditional look of Trac and its
    climate-friendly resource usage :-)

    Now, while Trac is still maintained upstream and has been ported
    to Python 3 recently, development slowed down since long and the
    current 1.5.x release series is not yet "there".

    I wonder, whether the package should be part of Debian 11, or
    better miss one stable release and have it in better shape for
    Debian 12.

    If nobody objects, I'll file a bug to keep it out of Debian 11.

    Comments welcome!

    Cheers

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  • From Barin Montpris@21:1/5 to Martin on Mon May 10 14:10:01 2021
    On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 10:35:41AM +0000, Martin wrote:
    Now, while Trac is still maintained upstream and has been ported
    to Python 3 recently, development slowed down since long and the
    current 1.5.x release series is not yet "there".

    I wonder, whether the package should be part of Debian 11, or
    better miss one stable release and have it in better shape for
    Debian 12.

    I don't object. Typically I am against releasing knowingly not
    ready-to-ship software. If one of the maintainers comes up with a
    reasonable argument against this view, then we should listen to it.

    --
    Best regards,

    Barin

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  • From Martin@21:1/5 to Andrius Merkys on Mon May 10 15:10:01 2021
    On 2021-05-10 14:00, Andrius Merkys wrote:
    I do not think that slowing down of development is reason serious enough
    to remove a package which is otherwise fine. Or are there other reasons
    that I am not aware of?

    I don't have a problem with slow development, but the current
    version is probably not good enough to maintain it for some
    years. I'm optimistic, that in some months or so 1.6.x will
    be released, which should be fine. I'm planning to backport it
    to Debian 11, so that users still can install trac easily.

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