Bug#704520: RM: midgard2-core/10.05.7.1-1 php5-midgard2/10.05.7-1
user release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
usertags 677795 + wheezy-will-remove
thanks
On 2013-04-02 13:13, Didier Raboud wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: rm
>
> Hi dear Release Team, hi dear midgard2-core and php5-midgard2 maintainers,
>
> as explained in http://bugs.debian.org/677795#67 , I think midgard2-core
> (and it's only build-rdep, php5-midgard2) should get removed from
> testing:
>
>> As I read it, the package had several packaging-related issues
>> "summing up" to that serious bug, filed two weeks before the freeze.
>> Since then, in September, a package supposedly fixing these issues has
>> been uploaded and queued in NEW [0]; it hasn't been liberated from NEW
>> yet. From here, I see three ways forward:
>>
>> a) a new package enters unstable, and then Wheezy, but that seems
>> unlikely;
>> b) midgard2-core and php5-midgard2 are removed from Wheezy, thereby
>> removing the RC bug.
>> c) that bug either gets downgraded to non-RC severity, or tagged
>> wheezy-ignore by the release team.
>>
>> As I think the concerns originally leading to the severity of that bug
>> are correct, I would rather be of the opinion to drop the two
>> packages.
>
> As you see, I think that as this point, b) is the only reasonable
> choice.
>
> Cheers,
>
> OdyX
>
> [...]
We have not accepted new (binary) packages in Wheezy for quite a while.
So option a) is indeed very unlikely.
As it is, I am inclined to agree with OdyX's observations, so I am
tagging the bug as will-remove for now.
~Niels
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