Bug#743767: Removing hotot from unstable?

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

Control: reassign 743767 ftp.debian.org
Control: retitle 743767 RM: hotot -- RoQA; not in stable, broken


On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 02:21:50PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi Adrian,

Hi Axel,

> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > and that there is no point in keeping a dead package that already
> > didn't make it into the previous stable.
> > 
> > Do you agree?
> 
> Only partially. I disagree that it's (completely) dead, but I agree
> that it doesn't make sense to keep it in unstable if nobody cares
> about the RC bugs.
>...

we seem to agree on the relevant part.

The upstream situation alone wouldn't be a problem
(Debian ships code where upstream is dead for more than a decade).

The RC bugs that are not fixed (with several looking difficult to fix) 
are the problem.

cu
Adrian

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