Lack of deprecation period for short option changes

[Martin Pool]

On 10 Jan 2007, James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
> On (10/01/07 15:48), Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > I've had this problem with bzrtools maintainers before.  At their
> > suggestion, I started releasing bzrtools in parallel with the bzr
> > release candidate.  Seems like that's not enough, but I don't know what is.
> 
> I think you are doing all you can.
> 
> bzrtools is actually maintained by the utnubu team, who I believe were
> aiming to just sync back their packages from Ubuntu, but that hasn't
> been happening.

Getting bzr up to date should be a lot easier than general
synchronization from Ubuntu, because there are no Ubuntu- or
Debian-specific changes.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bzr.html

As far as I can make out from that page, the maintainer is still Rob
Weir, who disappeared from the net some time ago -- that might account
for some delays.

How about if Etienne makes the packages, and someone (Wouter? Jeff
Bailey?) sponsors their upload into Debian?  Then they should always be
at least in experimental within a few days of release.

> That also seems reasonable, and is going to put a lot more pressure on
> the maintainer to update in a timely manner. Maybe they don't want to
> commit themselves to this.
> 
> The solution here is obviously to have an attentive maintainer for the
> package. I'm not sure if this is going to happen soon though.

Since we already have the packages I would think that just getting them
uploaded should be possible.

-- 
Martin