Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal User: ftp.debian.org@packages.debian.org Usertags: remove X-Debbugs-Cc: osspsa@packages.debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:osspsa I'm the new upstream for all OSSP software (https://sr.ht/~nabijaczleweli/ossp); as part of this, I've surveyed which OSSP packages Debian still ships, and ossp-sa is one of them. The last upstream release was in 2005-10 (https://git.sr.ht/~nabijaczleweli/ossp-sa/refs ‒ SA_1_2_6). The last maintainer upload was in 2007-07. The package has been orphaned in 2014 by another developer in #741474 (I preemptively ITAed it to evaluate for salvage/removal; this is basically RoM). The packaging is... definitely 2007. Unbreaking it has been the only activity (bug-wise and upload-wise) on this package, ever. The popcon is inst=1 (old=1). I struggle to think who would /ever/ want to use this, especially in the context of "having a standard socket API" (the bulk of the library https://git.sr.ht/~nabijaczleweli/ossp-sa/tree/trunk/item/sa.c is ifdefs for a pre-standard-socket-API world and parsing; the USPs https://lfs.nabijaczleweli.xyz/0022-OSSP.org-mirror/ftp.ossp.org/ossp-web/pkg/lib/sa/ are "absolutely nothing" or "this is getaddrinfo()" or "everything has this"). It is not worth the effort of maintaining it, and wasn't for a decade. There will never be a new upstream version. наб
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