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Re: Bug#822243: calligra: RM calligra [ANY] -- RC-buggy, FTBFS, blocks removal of no-longer-built packages



reassign 822243 ftp.debian.org
thanks

On Friday 22 April 2016 14:34:22 Tobias Frost wrote:
> Source: calligra
> Severity: serious
> Justification: blocks removal of cruft / completion of transitions
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know, calligra is a very diffult package to maintain, but unfortunatly it
> has 4 RC bugs which prevents it to be rebuilt and therefore blocks several
> packages to be removed -- to complete transitions.
> 
> At the moment, according to #806454 and #817945 is not even installable, and
> according to [1] the current and a prospective new maintainer has currently
> no time.
> 
> Therefore please consider to remove the *binary* packages from sid to help
> untangle things:
> - glew
> - gsl
> - hdf5
> - and removal of libpng 1.2
> 
> Please resond to this bug or -- if you agree -- reassign it to
> ftp.debian.org. If there is no respone within a week, I willl reassign it
> accordingly. (The RM bug will remove only the binary packages, source
> should be kept if not decided otherwise by the ftp-masters)
> 
> Please note that latest when we file for libpng1.2 removal, this needs to be
> resolved, otherwise we will ask ftp.debian.org to remove calligara together
> with libpng1.2
> 
> Thanks!

As long as there is no active maintainer I don't see why we should keep RC 
binaries around. Removing the binaries for now sounds like a good idea in case 
someone misses calligra and steps over to maintain it. Else we can remove the 
source later.

Kinds regards, Lisandro.

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