Package removal proposals
I'm getting more aggressive as time goes on. All of these have RC bugs
which affect the package in Sarge and have been open since at least January.
I ignored patched and pending bugs, although I'll probably send a different
message to a different list asking for NMUs of those. I also ignored bugs
in some packages which can't reasonably be removed
(like glibc, util-linux, ssh...) :-(
Some of these expose, uh, "non-technical" problems preventing fixed versions
from going in, but I can't say what to do about those; only that the current
versions are not OK for release, and will probably release if they aren't
removed. :-P
Of course, it's also possible that some of these bugs shouldn't be
release-critical; I leave it to debian-release to decide if some of these
should be downgraded (I didn't think so).
remove atmelwlandriver/2.1.1-3.3
#229159, maintainer apparently doesn't have time to work on it.
Also 205419, 210559, 214775, 207182,...
Three consecutive NMUs, too.
remove dict-jargon/4.4.4-4
FTBFS (#229435). Eventually it will be fixed and it can go in again, of course.
remove dovecot/0.99.10.4-2
#225048 (data loss).
remove drivel/0.9.1-4
#226492. There's a packaged new upstream version, and if someone will
sponsor an upload, it will be fixed, but in the meantime....
remove gkrellongrun/0.6.1-2.2
#190882 (doesn't work)
remove kronolith/1.1-1
#227461
remove cal3d/0.9-1.3
library packaged without proper soname (#213588)
remove libpng-dylan/2.3.10-4
#221074 (FTBFS), ignored by maintainer
also #238928, which makes it unreleasable
remove gnome-db2/0.12.1-2
#228893
remove mirrormagic/2.0.2-3
#229747
remove pointless/0.4-3
#221342 (latex2html, maintainer not doing anything)
remove sendmail/8.13.11.Beta0-1
#227464 (doesn't respect DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive or use debconf)
Also #232664
remove zope/2.6.4-1
#222443
That is all.
(xemacs21 would be on this list, but the last versions in sarge actually don't
have any of the current RC bugs. Which is a sort of victory for the
'testing' scripts. Of course, this is because no version has gotten into
'testing' since woody....)
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