Re: Dropping src:torque from archive? (was: Re: Bug#767411: torque: should not be released with jessie)

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 08:32:04PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> 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?

I think so.

Cheers,
        Moritz