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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.

Comments

CLC

[(Anonymous)]

Just my experience:
When I began using lisp on debian (stable/sarge, at that time), I initially tried CLC. But I had to abandon it soon, because the available packages were *horribly* old, esp. SBCL and slime.
As you know, SBCL is released montly, and Slime does not even have a release cycle; unless you have a very recent version, the developers tend to ignore any help request (not that I blame them, that's just how it is).

Also, I am in no position to have an opinion on it, but It seems that the very concept of CLC is not universally appreciated; see certain posts in this thread for example:
http://groups.google.it/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/d40f9d1c2464f679