Re: Packages that ought to be kicked out of testing

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
>> # The most commonly installed binary package from gforge, gforge-common,
>> # has only 12 installations in popcon.  One of its packages has been
>> # uninstallable for 64 days.  There is also a possible security-related
>> # bug, #328224 (it is not RC only because no one has yet
>> # checked if it applies to the version in Debian, even though the bug
>> # was submitted 253 days ago).  The versions in stable/testing/unstable
>> # are identical.
>> remove gforge/3.1-31
>
>> # gforge has one reverse depends, gforge-theme-starterpack.
>> remove gforge-theme-starterpack/3.1-1
>
> Removing these has been previously suggested on the list, so this is
> somewhere on the TODO stack already.

I spoke to Roland Mas about the gforge security bug during DebConf and he
told me he hadn't come around to address it. Given the huge size of GForge,
team maintenance would probably be the best option.

Cheers,
        Moritz