Debian package about to be removed

[Noah Slater <ns...@tumbolia.org>]

Hey,

I have sent a few emails through to the list before about someone  
stepping up to help package CouchDB for Debian. I received an email  
from Sergei Golovan today saying that he's seen nothing from the  
original set of volunteers and that he's now considering removing it  
from the current release of Debian. I think this would be pretty bad.

Is there anyone who's still interested in helping out here? We have an  
Ubuntu package, which was taken from the Debian package, so it would  
be nice if someone could co-ordinate pushing this back upstream.

Thanks,

Noah

Re: Debian package about to be removed

[Sam Bisbee <sb...@computervip.com>]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:05:26AM +0000, Noah Slater wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I have sent a few emails through to the list before about someone  
> stepping up to help package CouchDB for Debian. I received an email from 
> Sergei Golovan today saying that he's seen nothing from the original set 
> of volunteers and that he's now considering removing it from the current 
> release of Debian. I think this would be pretty bad.
>
> Is there anyone who's still interested in helping out here? We have an  
> Ubuntu package, which was taken from the Debian package, so it would be 
> nice if someone could co-ordinate pushing this back upstream.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Noah

Hey Noah,

I know that there was some small movement, but then nothing happened.

Personally I just don't have much time these days. I'll try to find some this
week, as I agree that Debian should have the latest and greatest, but probably
won't get a chance until this weekend. 

Thanks for the prod,

-- 
Sam Bisbee

Re: Debian package about to be removed

[Noah Slater <ns...@tumbolia.org>]

On 9 Nov 2009, at 07:03, Elliot Murphy wrote:

> I finally committed some changes to the erlang packaging team svn repo
> tonight, and wrote up a mail to the erlang packaging team mailing list
> with some suggestions for further work we might collaborate on to make
> the CouchDB package even better and more reliable (I'd really like to
> get unit tests running during package build).
>
> We should get a workflow worked out with Sergei soon, and get regular
> uploads going to debian again - I'd much prefer to work on this  
> package
> directly in debian and just merge to ubuntu.

Sweet, thanks!

How far are we away from getting 0.10.0 uploaded?

Re: Debian package about to be removed

[Elliot Murphy <el...@canonical.com>]

On 11/02/2009 05:51 AM, Noah Slater wrote:
> 
> On 2 Nov 2009, at 10:29, Devendra Gera wrote:
> 
>> I'm a Debian packaging newbie, but I do maintain the internal CouchDB
>> package (with the pre-0.10 doc-notifications patch), along with other
>> internal (Debian) packages.
>>
>> I can help out.
> 
> Sure, please contact Sergei Golovan <sg...@debian.org>
> 
> He is happy to check and upload your package, but he does not have time
> to collaborate on it.
> 
> Thanks for offering!
> 

I finally committed some changes to the erlang packaging team svn repo
tonight, and wrote up a mail to the erlang packaging team mailing list
with some suggestions for further work we might collaborate on to make
the CouchDB package even better and more reliable (I'd really like to
get unit tests running during package build).

We should get a workflow worked out with Sergei soon, and get regular
uploads going to debian again - I'd much prefer to work on this package
directly in debian and just merge to ubuntu.

-- 
Elliot Murphy | https://launchpad.net/~statik/

Re: Debian package about to be removed

[Noah Slater <ns...@tumbolia.org>]

On 2 Nov 2009, at 10:29, Devendra Gera wrote:

> I'm a Debian packaging newbie, but I do maintain the internal CouchDB
> package (with the pre-0.10 doc-notifications patch), along with other
> internal (Debian) packages.
>
> I can help out.

Sure, please contact Sergei Golovan <sg...@debian.org>

He is happy to check and upload your package, but he does not have  
time to collaborate on it.

Thanks for offering!

Re: Debian package about to be removed

[Devendra Gera <ge...@theoldmonk.net>]

On Mon, 02 Nov 2009, Noah Slater wrote:

> Is there anyone who's still interested in helping out here? We have
> an Ubuntu package, which was taken from the Debian package, so it
> would be nice if someone could co-ordinate pushing this back
> upstream.

I'm a Debian packaging newbie, but I do maintain the internal CouchDB
package (with the pre-0.10 doc-notifications patch), along with other
internal (Debian) packages.

I can help out.

Thanks,
--gera.