Re: Bug#1069722: RFS: libtranscript/0.3.3-1.1 [NMU] [RC] -- Character set conversion library
Hi Salvo!
Thanks for checking it.
On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 2:15 PM Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I think there is no point to NMU this.
>
> It is a dependency for tilde, which is abandoned and marked for removal
> anyway.
The season for tilde has been marked for removal not by itself but due
to several dependencies[0], there is one that still needs to be
fixed[1].
[0]: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tilde
[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1066618
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> I'd say it's fine to let it all be removed.
I am not sure it is appropriate to just remove a package that has >160
popcon[2] and upstream released the new version[3] two years ago.
[2]: https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=tilde
[3]: https://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde/
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> Unless you actually want to adopt tilde and its dependencies, in which case I
> think you should follow the proper procedure, instead of doing NMU (like for
> libt3window).
hmm, I understand. But I do not have energy to adopt these packages at
this time. I think these packages will be shipped into QA at last.
Doing this NMU from
previous NMUing for libt3window packages as you said because
libt3window depends on this package.
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> So you should contact the MIA team about this, I think.
Thanks, I will contact the MIA team to orphan these packages if the
maintianers continue to be inactive for a long time.
BR,
Bo
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> Salvo Tomaselli
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