On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 12:32:24PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 03:48:23PM +0100, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> > Package: ftp.debian.org
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > I'm the usual sponsor of dolibarr in Debian. The maintainer (and
> > upstream author) Eldy Destailleur announced me a few weeks ago that he
> > will no longer be maintaining Dolibarr within Debian because it was
> > too much of a pain to respect all the Debian requirements.
>
> Laurent,
> does this also extend to 3.5.5 and 4.0.2 releases currently shipped
> in Debian? If so, I'd also request their removal from stable/oldstable
> (e.g to prevent new stretch users from deploying a deprecated package)?
Laurent's reply was directed only to my self, but pasting it here
for completeness (and ofc with his permission):
| Yes.
| We provide (even for version 3.5.5 and 4.0.2) a package out of debian that
| can give user a better experience than the embedded package, because we can
| embed all external lib we need, in the version we need. So you can make a
| removal request of 3.5.5 and 4.0.2
Cheers,
Moritz
