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Bug#569163: marked as done (RM: gq/testing; orphaned, broken upstream release)

Your message dated Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:42:14 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#569163: Bug#555325: gq: version 1.3.4 completely unusable
has caused the Debian Bug report #569163,
regarding RM: gq/testing; orphaned, broken upstream release
to be marked as done.

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Package: gq
Version: 1.3.4
Severity: grave

Debian testing on an amd64:

After a few crashes the first minutes I threw away all ~/.gq* files and
directories. I tried to add a new server. Impossible to enter the bind
dn. It simply forgets it. On the first search it crashes. I have seen
about 10 crashes in the very few first 10 minutes. This is completely
unusable. This version should never have been transferred to testing
IMHO. In this state it is better to remove gq completely.

Workaround: get the sources from the oldstable repository, recompile it
and downgrade to 1.0. Do not forget to:

echo gq hold | dpkg --set-selections

R.

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On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 14:55 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Agreed. This package is in quite a bad shape, mostly because latest
> upstream release (albeit recent) is fubar. The last package maintainer
> gave up for this reason, and because he was not willing to fix all
> outstanding issues on the Debian side. As long as either a maintainer
> step in (which is willing to do that) or upstream releases a decent
> version, the package is quite useless.
> 
> The most reasonable course of action from the Debian POV is to remove
> the package from testing.

Removal hint added.

Looking at the package's upload history, however, it looks like a good
candidate for removal from unstable as well. :-/  It's been orphaned for
nearly six months now and prior to Barry's QA upload in October hadn't
had an upload to unstable in over three years, nor an upload to anywhere
in the archive for 2.5 years.

Regards,

Adam

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