Hi, On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 06:52:21PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > Opensync family of packages has accumulated a full of 21 RC bugs [1] without any > comments from the maintainer. Furthermore, some of the packages block the lafiles > release goal[2]. > > Looking at the list of packages: > > libopensync-plugin-evolution2, broken, #619712 > libopensync-plugin-file > libopensync-plugin-gnokii rc-buggy: FTBFS, uninstallable, lafiles > libopensync-plugin-google-calendar, rc-buggy: FTBFS, uninstallable, lafiles, experimental-only > libopensync-plugin-gpe rc-buggy: FTBFS, uninstallable, lafiles > libopensync-plugin-irmc rc-buggy: FTBFS, uninstallable, lafiles > libopensync-plugin-kdepim rc-buggy: FTBFS, uninstallable, lafiles > libopensync-plugin-moto rc-buggy: FTBFS, uninstallable, > libopensync-plugin-opie rc-buggy: FTBFS, uninstallable, lafiles > libopensync-plugin-palm rc-buggy: FTBFS, uninstallable, lafiles > libopensync-plugin-python rc-buggy: FTBFS, uninstallable, lafiles > libopensync-plugin-sunbird rc-buggy: FTBFS, uninstallable, lafiles > libopensync-plugin-syncml > libopensync-plugin-tomboy, experimental-only > libopensync-plugin-tomboy-sync, experimental-only > libopensync-plugin-vformat > libopensync-plugin-xmlformat > opensync, rc-buggy: FTBFS. patch in ubuntu. > osynctool, rc-buggy (non-use of $EDITOR). > msynctool experimental only, last upload 2008, uninstallable > multisync0.90, FTBFS, uninstallable > > If we fix opensync with the patch from ubuntu, we get a full of 4 working > plugins. This makes me wonder if if would be just simpler to remove the whole > suite for time being? Then again, the NEW team is not going to be happy > if someone desides to bring all those packages back to Debian again. Any > recommondations? As it highly dubious there will be another stable release of opensync in the mid-term future, let alone the wheezy timeframe, I agree the time has come to remove opensync from Debian. Cheers, Michael
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