Bug#1058025: RM: octave-vibes -- ROM; package is unusable

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: octave-vibes@packages.debian.org, debian-octave@lists.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:octave-vibes

I am hereby requesting the removal package octave-vibes from Debian, on 
behalf of the Debian Octave Group.

This package only makes sense when used together with the VIBES 
Viewer [1], which has never been packaged for Debian. Furthermore, the 
package currently FTBFS [2]. This is caused by the fact that the VIBES 
API uses the file $HOME/.vibes.json to communicate with the VIBES server. 
Since the Debian autobuilders set HOME="/nonexistent/" [3], then the unit 
tests for octave-vibes fail.

We are not going to the trouble of fixing the octave-vibes package, neither 
packaging VIBES for Debian.

Best,

Rafael Laboissière

 [1] https://github.com/ENSTABretagneRobotics/VIBES
 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/1057591
 [3] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#non-existent-home-directories