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After some consideration I must conclude that the state of the Common Lisp packages in Debian is becoming unreasonable. One of the goals of forming the pkg-common-lisp team was that I would not be a bottleneck, as RL is inflicting more and more damage to my 'Debian playtime'.

Now that Luca left I'm basically the only 'active' (for very small values of active) DD/DM left. (no hard feeling towards anybody, just loads of thanks for the work they did)

I see two alternatives:

• other people get involved, investigating bugs and sending git/darcs/whatever format patches.


• we go low impact and remove common-lisp-controller and all Common Lisp libraries, and I/we only package the lisp implementations (clisp, ecl, sbcl, cmucl and perhaps ccl) without any special changes

I don't expect the first alternative to be realistic, so unless proven wrong I'll RFA/RM all the libraries/clc on the 5th of September.

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[(Anonymous)]

I'm really interested in preventing this: despite many packages being out of date, common-lisp-controller and the apt integration is for me a major reason to use Debian (well actually a Debian derivative) for my Common Lisp coding.

What does this involve? How much time do you spend on it? CAn you give examples of something that needs doing? I might be willing to help out.

Also, you should post this other lispy places, like comp.lang.lisp. and maybe lispforum.com as well. It's already been posted to the lisp subreddit.