phpGroupWare should be included in Hardy

Discussion from #ubuntu-motu yesterday even AEDT

<skwashd> hi all
<skwashd> how do i find out why a motu maintained package was dropped from a release?
<soren> skwashd: http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/removals.txt
<skwashd> soren: thanks ... not the most user friendly list ... but hey it works :)
<skwashd> soren: and now is too late to get it back in for hardy ... right?
<soren> skwashd: Depends.
<skwashd> it was dropped from debian after it was orphaned ... and so ubuntu did the same (the maintainer - ajmitch is AWOL)
<skwashd> now it is in debian unstable again ... and the gutsy debs should still work with hrady
<skwashd> either way i would like to see it make a come back in 1 form or another
<skwashd> soren: which side of depends does this case fall :)
<soren> skwashd: File a feature freeze exception request along with a sync request.
<soren> skwashd: If it's been in the archive before, I don't think it'll be a problem, but it's not up to me.

Why did Debian drop it?

Short answer - maintainer AWOL
Longer answer - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=453467

Is it no longer buggy or have security issues? What testing of this package
on Hardy have you done?

Ack from me. It only fell out of Debian for two months and so we'll get it
back in Ibex. It's not good form to have a package disappear for one
release.

fine by me, and i'll have to remember to poke andrew with a cross-continental stick if he goes AWOL again.

We now have a new maintainer in Debian - Olivier Berger.

I still can't contact Andrew. Andrew hasn't participated in any discussions on the debian bts or the phpGW list regarding packaging and I have been unable to contact him by phone for months. Please let me know if you find a stick that works, I would like to know he is ok.

He is OK. I've chatted with him on IRC on other matters this week.

Bah:

[Updating] phpgroupware (0 [Ubuntu] < 1:0.9.16.012+dfsg-1 [Debian])
 * Trying to add phpgroupware...
  - <phpgroupware_0.9.16.012+dfsg.orig.tar.gz: already in distro - downloading from librarian>
E: phpgroupware_0.9.16.012+dfsg-1.diff.gz (from phpgroupware) is in the DB but isn't an orig.tar.gz. (Probably published in an older release)

Can any of you please do a fakesync?

This bug was fixed in the package phpgroupware - 1:0.9.16.012+dfsg-1ubuntu1

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phpgroupware (1:0.9.16.012+dfsg-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version (LP: #206948)
    FakeSync because syncscript barks out loud

 -- Stephan Hermann <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:41:47 +0100