Bug#947979: enchant -> enchant-2 transition: Time to purge enchant(1)?
On Thu, 03 Sep 2020 10:25:01 -0400
Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org> wrote:
> X-Debbugs-CC: gq@debian.org elbrus@debian.org bigon@debian.org
>
> On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 14:08:24 +0200 Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
> wrote:
> > # We don't want to ship two enchants in bullseye. Dear maintainers,
> > # you can lower the severity until December 2020 if you have a
> > plan
> to
> > # fix the issue before the bullseye transition freeze, but please
> > # document that in the bug in case you do.
>
> Now, according to
> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/enchant-2.html , package
> xenur ( https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xneur ) is the last package
> that (build-)depends on enchant(1). This package has been under FTBFS
> status due to GCC-10 since July and was removed in Testing.
>
> I believe we can make some early move and remove enchant(1) from Sid
> (and natually Testing) now. Alexander: if you still need enchant(1)
> these months, please let me know; this removal can be postponed till
> December 2020 (but will surely happen after that). Otherwise I am
> looking into opening a RM bug against FTP Masters about 1 week later
> and finally finish this longlasting transition.
Sorry for the delay, I'll take a look on the package later, but feel
free to remove enchant.
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Alexander Gerasiov
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