[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Dropping src:torque from archive? (was: Re: Bug#767411: torque: should not be released with jessie)

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi all,

On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 08:50:05PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 02:30:02PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > > Given Dominique's reply on #767411, from my POV I think the best
> > > solution would be to remove torque completely for jessie (i.e. first
> > > drop support from openmpi to be able to remove the package and
> > > remaining reverse dependencies).
> > 
> > 4 wheezy DSAs doesn't necessarily sound that horrible, so I don't
> > think we're clearly at the point where torque should be considered
> > unsupportable.  Maybe the patch backports were an incredible amount of
> > work?
> 
> Well, but the 2.4 branch is already no longer unsupported upstream
> and we shouldn't knowingly introduce it into a release which will be
> supported for five more years.
>  
> > The package does clearly need to be orphaned, so someone can step up
> > post-jessie to get the package in sync with upstream.
> 
> As written by Dominique that's no possible for license reasons.

In meanwhile openmpi has droppend the torque dependency.

Should we have src:torque and src:pbs-drmaa be removed from the
archive?

Regards,
Salvatore