Bugzilla removed from Debian

[Stephanie Daugherty]

Debian also still has their security and critical bug fixes only
policy, which is basically:
-Any bug that ships that doesn't make the software completely unusable
for everybody, crash the machine, cause data loss, or create a
security issue is a feature to debian, and must be preserved as such
until the next Debian release.
-If upstream ships anything in an update that's not either a security
fix, or otherwise a critical (crashes the machine, causes data loss)
bug, they have to backport the fixes, because "features" can neither
be removed nor added between releases.

The overhead of backporting fixes, and upstream development that
usually has a shorter development and support lifecycle, as well as
more liberal definitions of what constitutes a minor update leads them
to miss important issues.

So, we're actually way better off here if they don't ship Bugzilla -
the policies in question are too asinine for them to do it correctly.

-Stephanie


On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:55 PM, David Miller <justdave at bugzilla.org> wrote:
> 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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