Re: end-of-life iotjs for the upcoming bullseye LTS

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi Santiago,

On Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 03:07:51PM -0300, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As suggested by Moritz, giving the status of iotjs, I think it is not
> possible to support it during the bullseye LTS period. iotjs was removed
> from unstable (and bookworm when it was testing) nearly two years ago:
> https://tracker.debian.org/news/1354004/removed-10715-1-from-unstable/.
> 
> It was not properly maintained in unstable, the debian bullseye version
> is lagging a long way behind upstream, and there are 65 security issues
> currently open.
> 
> If there are not objections, I will add it to debian-security-support's
> security-support-ended.deb11 by next Tuesday.

Actually I would like to propose something else to consider: the
package has a very low popcon and it has no reverse dependecies:

carnil@coccia:~$ dak rm --suite=bullseye -n -R iotjs
Will remove the following packages from bullseye:

     iotjs |  1.0+715-1 | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
 iotjs-dev |  1.0+715-1 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x

Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers <pkg-javascript-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

------------------- Reason -------------------

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Checking reverse dependencies...
No dependency problem found.

carnil@coccia:~$

So the package can be safely removed I would say and so my proposal
would be to ask for removal of iotjs in the last bullseye point
release.

What do you think?

Regards,
Salvatore