Comment 4 for bug 1486772

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

Oy, another build system. I understand that we can't control what build system upstreams use, so we can't exclude it based on "we have enough build systems in main", but we have enough build systems in main. :)

This one seems poorly maintained in Ubuntu/Debian...
- Ubuntu only has 1.3, Debian has 1.5 (and neither has 1.6) -- merge request is bug 1473680
- Lintian warning package-installs-into-obsolete-dir for its bash completion files
- Lintian warning embedded-javascript-library about embedding jquery.js (don't do that! -- but actually, it's just in the documentation, I suppose that's not a blocker for main from a security point of view or really a maintenance POV)
- Build-Depends on obsolete hardening-wrapper and has copyright file syntax issues (both solved in Debian)
- Is maintained in Debian by one person, not a team. Not fully owned in Ubuntu either (though oxide team cares about it, but it's not clear they've committed to caring for it in Ubuntu)

What I'd like to see is a team commit to looking after it in Ubuntu (maybe that's ~oxide-developers, ask Chris Coulson). And, ideally a merge from Debian. Though maybe that's too much to ask at this late stage in wily.