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 with pip is easy to do, dropping this package won't be much of a problem in my opinion. (Of course, if there is a substantial possibility of getting something more modern in Debian repos, that would be even better.) -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> On 20 May 2017 15:06, "martin f krafft" <madd...@debian.org> wrote: > 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 Chris Warrick > has made it clear in #801796 that they'd rather not have nikola in > Debian, than an ancient version that annoys people and causes them > spurious bug reports. > > Given how nobody has put in any work on nikola in almost 2 years, > I think we should have the decency to remove the package from > stretch and sid before the release. > > nikola has no reverse dependencies, so… > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 9.0 > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 > (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > > -- > .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> @martinkrafft > : :' : proud Debian developer > `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck > `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems >
