James Walker wrote:
On 26-Jul-06, at 7:06 PM, Larry Garfield wrote:
I recommend Debian upgrades its Drupal packages, too. I understand Sarge, but why does Sid include 4.5.x?
AFAIK, there isn't an active Debian maintainer for Drupal... killes?
Ok, here is it again, the long, sad story of the Drupal debian package... Once upon a time some guy named Hugo came along and asked "hey, I'd like to make a .deb from Drupal." and Dries, being nice, said "sure, why not?". Hugo kept producing Debian packages for two (?) more releases and then vanished from the face of the earth. Meanwhile, Drupal continued its fast race towards world domination. But there were still some people using the ill fated debian package and asked support questions. This annoyed me a great deal. So I spoke to my friend Hilko who after some time released a new debian package and kept doing that for a while. This Deban package of his is now in the stable debian release and people seem to see a need to add security fixes. Due to debian's procedures, the package in the stable release can't be upgraded to 4.7. Hilko doesn't really like PHP applications since he is a Perl coder, he also doesn't use Drupal himself. So he abandoned the package several weeks ago. There seem to be some people who want to take over as maintainers, but I really hope they find some better way to spend their spare time and let the package die. I repeat my opinion: Due to the faster release cycle, Drupal isn't something that should be part of a software distribution which has a long release cycle. Cheers, Gerhard