Dear Lifeng and other Debian Science Team developers, I am currently working in Debian to completely remove package multiarch- support and all its reverse dependencies. Some of its background can be found at https://bugs.debian.org/783898 and [2]. On a current Debian Sid (+experimental) system, we have: % apt-cache rdepends multiarch-support multiarch-support Reverse Depends: libhepmc4 multiarch-support:i386 openjdk-7-jre-headless *experimental only multiarch-support:i386 libsass0 *cruft multiarch-support:i386 libbitcoin0v5 multiarch-support:i386 libhepmcfio4 multiarch-support:i386 ..in which libhepmc4 and libhepmcfio4 are all provided by src:hepmc. Unfortunately, hepmc in Debian is unmaintained, FTBFS for years and has been requested to be removed from Debian, see [1]. However, its removal is blocked by some other packages, which are all under Debian Science Team and previously maintained by Lifeng Sun. It seems that Lifeng Sun is not active anymore and the best solution seems to be removing all packages involved. Dear Lifeng, if you read this email, please feel free to tell me about your planned / potential future work in Debian. If you are returning to Debian for further contribution, I would be glad to assist you with that. If you are unlikely to continue maintaining those packages in the forseeable future, please also write back (either privately or publicly is okay) so that the team could take care of those packages for QA purposes. To the rest of the debian-science team: I would be glad to work with you and do some QA works so that the eventual multiarch-support package removal can be achieved sooner, ideally before Debian Buster freeze. It might be better if we could set up a deadline for reaction, e.g., wait for another 30 days or 60 days to see if there's any chance of improvement. After that, I would propose that we submit RM bugs for them so that they are not left in Sid forever. Your ideas and suggestions would be appreciated. -- Regards, Boyuan Yang [1] https://bugs.debian.org/885180 [2] https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=multiarch-support-removal&user=debian-glibc%40lists.debian.org
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