drush far out of date, please pull from upstream

[Dan Kegel]

$ apt-cache policy drush
drush:
  Installed: 5.10.0-2

But current drush is 8.0.1.

Please pull a new version from upstream.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

Looks like the package has become orphaned in Debian, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798500 for details. One of the main points seems to be the change to using composer which wasn't packaged in Debian. However, this has changed in the meantime, though I don't know how that affects the situation.

[Dan Kegel (dank)]

It seems drush is going to be useful in parallel with composer for a while.
At least, I seemed to need both in my initial experiments,
https://github.com/dankegel/d8demo

Incidentally, I filed a similar bug against composer in ubuntu, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/composer/+bug/1530204

[anarcat (anarcat)]

Hi,

In #823767, I have requested from the FTP-masters that Drush be removed
from Debian. In the ~9 months since it was orphaned, no one stepped up
to start maintaining the Drush package, let alone update it to a current
version. There was some movement on the Ubuntu side of things (also in
CC), but it seems it didn't end up going anywhere.

It seems clear to me no one is available to do that task and having an
outdated version of Drush in Debian is hurting both projects for no good
reason. At least that is the constant feedback I receive, both privately
and through the above bug reports.

So unless someone steps up *now* to tell the FTP-masters to stop, it
will be removed as soon as they take a look at bug #823767.

Thanks for your attention, and sorry for the wide {B,}CC.

A.

--
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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing since the package is removed from Ubuntu