[csw-maintainers] moving forward

[Maciej Bliziński]

2011/7/14 Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>:
> Hi,
>
> Am 14.07.2011 um 10:44 schrieb Maciej Bliziński:
>> Here is the changeset to be applied to dublin (my idea is to have
>> 'current' become a symlink to dublin).
>>
>> http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/~maciej/to_dublin.sh
>>
>> Changes I know about or I noticed:
>>
>> - updated libffi
>> - Python 2.6 with ctypes support on i386
>> - Python 2.7
>> - Python 3.1
>> - MySQL libraries are split to a separate package and placed in /opt/csw/lib
>> - added libslp
>> - added opencsw_policy
>> - removed squirrelmail
>> - removed drupal
>> - removed mediawiki
>> - removed zope
>
> Why are these removed?

I am guilty of removing them.  Reasons:

- they depend on apache2c
- they have no maintainers
- they are useless
- we want apache2c gone

> Shouldn't for "Dublin" much more packages be
> moved to "unmaintained"?

Yes, but we haven't implemented tiers yet.  I only removed packages
that were getting in our way.

>> - lots and lots of library splits
>> - lots and lots of updated packages
>> - probably other significant updates I did not notice
>>
>> Overall, I do not see anything drastic here.  I think we could do the
>> unstable→{dublin,current} integration.
>>
>> Did anyone make a test, e.g. install a box from current, then switch
>> to unstable and upgrade all packages?  If not, could anyone do that?
>
> Is this from here?
>  http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/opencsw-future/

Yes, from here. It will also be synced with the master mirror soon,
when we stamp out cron job failures.

Maciej