On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 1:36 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > Does it have revdeps or not? If it does, you can't just remove it. If it > doesn't, I'd say don't maintain libs which no one needs. There is one reverse dependency: $ ssh mirror.ftp-master.debian.org dak rm -s unstable -Rn libmrss ... Checking reverse dependencies... # Broken Depends: rsstail: rsstail # Broken Build-Depends: rsstail: libmrss0-dev Dependency problem found. I would suggest you talk to rsstail and libmrss upstreams about transferring upstream maintainership of libmrss from the current location to one where the rsstail upstream has write access (and the original maintainer has access too, just in case). Once the move is done, the original author can redirect the website/etc. Make sure everything is transferred from the old location to the new one, including the CVS repository, the tarballs and the documentation. If moving to github where rsstail is, the CVS repository could be converted to git, the tarballs could be attached to git tags and the documentation is probably already in CVS but if not it could be added to git or converted to a README.md and added to git. The CVS to git conversion will work like this: The CVS repo is currently offline. The libmrss upstream (or the ippolita.net admins) should send a copy of the repository to the person who is doing the conversion. Prepare a cvs2git-authors file containing the CVS logins of committers and how the corresponding git commit authors/committers should be represented, for eg: pabs=Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> git cvsimport -A cvs2git-authors -akmRv -d libmrss-CVS -C libmrss-git -o master libmrss &> log If libmrss upstream cannot access the CVS repository any more then the procedure is a bit more involved and you will have to download each of the tarballs and import them in order, adding a git tag for each one. If it comes to it, you can adapt the tar2git script I have attached for this. I used the script to convert the whowatch tarball history to git. Once the git conversion is done and there are git tags corresponding to each tarball, then the person doing the conversion should attach each tarball to the corresponding git tag using the github interface. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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