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About Jenkins in Debian

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Hi all,

I'm pondering what we should do about Jenkins in Debian. For the
reminder Jenkins development moves too fast and LTS releases are not
supported long enough to make it suitable for Debian stable. Security
fixes end up being almost impossible to backport properly. Moreover
upstream already provides .deb packages so there is little incentive to
duplicate this effort in Debian. We are also short on manpower to
maintain the whole Jenkins ecosystem.

At this point here are the options I think we could consider:

1. Provide updates for Debian stable through the backport repository.
   Unfortunately James Page the original maintainer gave up, I'd
   prefer focusing my energy on other applications not as well
   integrated with Debian yet, and nobody showed its interest in
   the Jenkins packaging lately.

2. Package a subset of Jenkins.
   We could keep only the jenkins-cli and jenkins-slave package as they
   provide a real added value over the upstream .deb package. This
   subset should be easier to maintain.

3. Remove Jenkins completely.

What do you think?

Emmanuel Bourg

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About Jenkins in Debian Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2016-01-11 16:10 +0100
  Re: About Jenkins in Debian Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> - 2016-01-11 17:00 +0100
    Re: About Jenkins in Debian Ioan Eugen Stan <stan.ieugen@gmail.com> - 2016-01-11 17:00 +0100
      Re: About Jenkins in Debian Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de> - 2016-01-11 19:00 +0100
    Re: About Jenkins in Debian Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2016-01-11 21:40 +0100
      Re: About Jenkins in Debian Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> - 2016-01-11 22:40 +0100
        Re: About Jenkins in Debian is not black OR white Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> - 2016-01-12 18:40 +0100
      Re: About Jenkins in Debian Arnaud Vandyck <avandyck@gmail.com> - 2016-01-12 11:00 +0100
  Re: About Jenkins in Debian Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2016-01-13 19:30 +0100
    Re: About Jenkins in Debian Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2016-01-14 09:40 +0100
      Re: About Jenkins in Debian Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2016-01-14 10:20 +0100
        Re: About Jenkins in Debian Guido Günther <gg@godiug.net> - 2016-01-15 18:10 +0100
        Re: About Jenkins in Debian Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2016-01-20 17:50 +0100
          Re: About Jenkins in Debian 殷啟聰 <seamlikok@gmail.com> - 2016-01-24 17:00 +0100
            Re: About Jenkins in Debian Ioan Eugen Stan <stan.ieugen@gmail.com> - 2016-01-24 20:30 +0100
            Re: About Jenkins in Debian Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> - 2016-01-24 21:20 +0100
            Re: About Jenkins in Debian Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2016-01-24 22:30 +0100
  Re: About Jenkins in Debian Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2016-01-29 17:30 +0100

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