Package: release.debian.org Severity: wishlist User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: rm
Dear release team,
Please consider removing the following packages from "testing":
gfarm
gfarm2fs
"gfarm" and "gfarm2fs" packages were last updated early 2011 (plus NMU in
early 2012). Current version of Gfarm in Jessie (2.4) is too old and
doesn't have data integrity features that were introduced in version 2.6.
Seemingly upstream do not support 2.4 any more (I've seen only references to
VCS updates to 2.5 and 2.6).
Gfarm 2.6 is a very good distributed parallel storage system. IMHO at the
moment (until LizardFS will be accepted from NEW) Gfarm is the best such
system in Debian -- certainly better and more reliable than Ceph (I wish I
knew that earlier so I wouldn't spend so much time fixing Ceph)...
Unfortunately Gfarm is still little known: current popcon score is only 18 for
"gfarm" and 8 for "gfarm2fs" (I'm pretty sure my servers account for at least
quarter of this score). IMHO it will be unfortunate if someone would try
outdated Gfarm from Jessie and I doubt that 2.4 would be responsible for
popcon growth. Besides I've never used version 2.4 and have no intention to
use or to support it.
Therefore I recommend to remove outdated "gfarm" and "gfarm2fs" packages
from "testing".
Thanks.
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Regards,
Dmitry Smirnov
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