dpatch was: Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa
On Monday, August 26, 2019 6:01:05 PM EDT Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 7/26/19 6:53 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > It's true it's not extinct, but it's close. It's only used by several
> > dozen packages now. If someone wanted to push to get dpatch completely
> > out of the archive this cycle, I think it would be perfectly reasonable.
> > The project has voted with their feet.
>
> I wish we had release goals again, because that would really be a
> perfect fit.
>
> Do you have the list of affected package available? How about we tackle
> this in a sprint, let's say, in Vaumarcus?
Here's the packages with dpatch in build-depends (they would all need checking
- I assume lintian only uses it for its test suite):
reverse-depends -b dpatch
Reverse-Build-Depends
=====================
* bopm
* cadaver
* check-mk
* cryptcat
* docbook2odf
* dvbsnoop
* efax
* elscreen
* flexbackup
* flow-tools
* gkrellm-x86info
* ibam
* ippl
* libdumbnet
* libmdsp
* lifelines
* lintian
* manpages-es
* mgetty
* myspell
* noweb
* nwall
* ocaml-expat
* ocamlodbc
* python-authkit
* python-toscawidgets
* qmc
* readline5
* redet
* scim-canna
* scim-skk
* shanty
* spell
* synaptic
* syrep
* tapecalc
* tcm
* txt2regex
* vdk2
* vsdump
* wbox
* xaw3d
* xcal
* xsysinfo
* xxgdb
Scott K
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