Bug#1115856: Trouble creating a repository for sympathy on Salsa
Hi Ian,
Am Sat, Nov 01, 2025 at 01:08:49PM +0000 schrieb Ian Jackson:
> Did you look at the bugs against sympathy in the BTS?
>
> You'll see in #1115856 that I am RFAing this package.
Ahhh, sorry, I missed this.
> And, I wrote:
> > Currently sympathy is about to be evicted from Debian testing (forky)
> > because it FTBFS with GCC-15 - see #1097960. If nothing else is done,
> > it will not form part of the next Debian release. If there is no
> > change in the situation by then I will request for it to be RM'd from
> > Debian.
>
> Unless we have some sign that anyone actually thinks this program is
> worth saving, I suggest we allow it to gently rot, and RM later in the
> forky cycle.
Fine for me. What di consider a sensible time span before asking for
removal?
> > > Any idea what might be wrong with the problematic commit
> > > 1069689de5ddf9ea55402544ad031cf7db85eb37 ?
>
> Did you do this?
>
> git cat-file commit 1069689de5ddf9ea55402544ad031cf7db85eb37
>
> It shows that the committer and author lines in the header are
> mangled. There's an additional angle bracket at the start of the name
> part.
>
> Fixing this would involve a history rewrite. If you would like to do
> that, you may go ahead. If you do so please file a bug against
> dgit-infrastructure asking for us to rewrite the history on
> *.dgit.d.o.
>
> But, I would recommend not bothering. I'm sure there are other parts
> of Debian that would benefit much more from your efforts.
I prefer following your advise and let this package fade out from
Debian. Regarding the benefit of my efforts: I'm keen on demonstrating
newcomers fixing RC bugs. I think this is worth even on low popcon
packages ... as long as these packages have some future.
It would be helpful if you give some hint when we might ask for
removal. What about beginning of next year?
Thanks a lot for your advise
Andreas.
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