Bug#863031: RM: nikola/7.6.4-1

2017-05-20 Thread Dererk
Dear reader, Just to clarify on this matter and to serve as a confirmation, there has been several attempts to upload most modern versions of this packages (the collab-maint doesn't lie). Unfortunately, we faced several times upload after upload, by some way or the other, crashing over the

Bug#863031: RM: nikola/7.6.4-1

2017-05-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org On Sat, 2017-05-20 at 15:04 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > The current version in stable is almost 2 years old. Bug#801796 has > been tracking the requests for new versions to be packaged. However, > the maintainer hasn't engaged. Upstream co-maintainer Chris

Bug#863031: RM: nikola/7.6.4-1

2017-05-20 Thread Chris Warrick
I confirm that the current situation is undesirable to us. There were attempts by other Debian devs to fix this (last in January), but nothing changed. Having to say that the package is unsupported every once in a while gets tiring quickly. Since there aren't that many users, and a manual install

Bug#863031: RM: nikola/7.6.4-1

2017-05-20 Thread martin f krafft
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: rm The current version in stable is almost 2 years old. Bug#801796 has been tracking the requests for new versions to be packaged. However, the maintainer hasn't engaged. Upstream co-maintainer