Bugzilla removed from Debian

[David Miller]

Gervase Markham wrote on 8/24/11 5:12 AM:
> On 24/08/11 00:44, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
>> I've been pinged with the information that Debian is no longer shipping
>> Bugzilla in their testing and unstable suites. I'm guessing this implies
>> Bugzilla will not be availible in the following versions of Ubuntu.
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638705
>
> Seems fair enough to me. The Debian package has always been hard for us
> to support (although that might be a mixture of us doing non-standard
> things and them just having 'their way').

They used to have to hack Bugzilla to pieces to make it actually work in 
Debian because of their enforced file structure.  Modern versions of 
Bugzilla don't need such hacking (there's one file to patch to set all 
the paths where you want them and the rest of the files shouldn't need 
to be touched other than being separated into the appropriate 
directories).  But that's all moot if there's nobody maintaining the 
package.

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