Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: retitle -1 RM: bitcoin -- ROM (team); unmaintained; RC-buggy; security
issues
Control: severity -1 normal
Please remove bitcoin. The Cryptocoin Team cannot keep up with it and nobody in the team feels
responsible. I do not think it is worth it to kee
Hi Cryptocoin Team,
Is anyone volunteering to get the bitcoin package back on track?
If not I suggest to remove it from Debian.
Thanks,
Bastian
On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:14:10 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
What I expect to be realistic is including e.g. 0.20.0 shortly before
freeze of bullseye, have it included when bullseye becomes stable 3-6
months later, and then when 0.20.1 comes out...
Ping. 0.20.1 is now available.
On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:14:10 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
What I expect to be realistic is including e.g. 0.20.0 shortly before
freeze of bullseye
Could we please have 0.19.1 a bit earlier? :)
Quoting Marco Falke (2019-12-20 20:33:10)
> Just a follow-up question to your suggestion to let the package bitrot
> or kick it out after it is no longer maintained: Would it be possible
> to provide newer versions of Bitcoin Core via "backports" packages. I
> think this is done for current vers
Just a follow-up question to your suggestion to let the package bitrot
or kick it out after it is no longer maintained: Would it be possible
to provide newer versions of Bitcoin Core via "backports" packages. I
think this is done for current versions of clang:
https://packages.debian.org/buster-bac
> What I expect to be realistic is including e.g. 0.20.0 shortly before
> freeze of bullseye, have it included when bullseye becomes stable 3-6
> months later, and then when 0.20.1 comes out cherry-pick
> security-related patches from that (or possibly use upstream release
> directly if it _only_ c
Hi Marco,
Thanks for raising these questions!
Quoting Marco Falke (2019-11-14 18:20:40)
> Are there any users of the package currently?
Debian has no reliable way to measure users (that's a feature, not a
bug), but our main indicator - popcon - indeed shows weak popularity:
https://qa.debian.o
Subject: bitcoind: Status of the Bitcoin Core package in Debian
Package: bitcoind
Version: 0.18.1~dfsg-1+b1
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
This is not a bug report, but I'd like to use it to gather your
thoughts on a few meta questions:
Are there any users of the package currently? What is the point of
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