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 current JS & CSS Debian's archive
policy, around several dozens symlinks (literally speaking), that made
totally both impractical and a total f^$%# mess to maintain.
Nikola also is a fast evolving software that usually force us (the
maintainers of nikola), to upload a couple of new dependences after new
upstream release. This is totally awesome from the standpoint of
upstream, since they reuse lots of code from other projects, but also
render maintaining nikola on debian a little bit more lag behind too.
We both (tin@ and myself) support RM of nikola, maybe in the future
efforts would match, currently thats not the case.
Cheers,
Dererk
On behalf of nikola maintainers
PS: sucks to have been delaying this so much, my sincere apologies.
On 20/05/17 10:04, martin f krafft 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)
>
>
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