Re: Yi in Testing?
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 12:11:37PM +0200, Ilias Tsitsimpis wrote:
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> Hi Tom,
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> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 04:10AM, amindfv@mailbox.org wrote:
> > I see that the Yi package has been removed from Testing and "The package has not entered testing even though the 5-day delay is over." [0] Does this mean that if nothing changes, Yi will be dropped from newer versions of Debian? Is anyone working on this?
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> Yi has been removed from testing because it is unmaintained (see [1] and
> [2]) and doesn't work with newer versions of Haskell libraries available
> on Debian testing. If nothing changes, I intend to completely remove it
> from Debian. As far as I know, no one from Debian is working on this,
> since it needs an upstream maintainer to adopt and fix it first.
Hi Ilias, thanks for the quick reply.
I'm sad to see that, that's a real shame. I've reached out to the package maintainer to see if they'd let me take on maintainership duties. If I were able to get Yi fixed upstream, would there be time to stop the removal of Yi from Debian?
Thanks,
Tom
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