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Bug#540218: marked as done (libept should be replaced by libapt-pkg + libxapian)

Your message dated Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:21:00 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1100178: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #540218,
regarding libept should be replaced by libapt-pkg + libxapian
to be marked as done.

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Package: libept-dev
Version: 0.5.26+b1
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

most of the things that can be done with libept can now be done just as
easily by a mix of libapt-pkg and libxapian. The exception to this is
adept, which however uses entirely different parts of libept than the
rest of the software in Debian.

The medium to long term plan for libept would therefore be to make it
disappear. The idea is to do so gradually:

 1. move adept-specific code into adept (see #540209)
 2. remove all the code not needed by aptitude, debtags, packagesearch
    and goplay
 3. submit patches to aptitude, debtags, packagesearch and goplay to
    stop using some part of libept
 4. goto 2, until libept can be removed from the archive.


Ciao,

Enrico

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libept-dev depends on:
ii  libapt-pkg-dev                0.7.21     Development files for APT's libapt
ii  libept0                       0.5.26+b1  High-level library for managing De
ii  libtagcoll2-dev               2.0.11-1   Functions used to manipulate tagge
ii  libwibble-dev                 0.1.23-1   Library of various useful C++ code
ii  libxapian-dev                 1.0.13-3   Development files for Xapian searc

Versions of packages libept-dev recommends:
ii  pkg-config                    0.22-1     manage compile and link flags for 

libept-dev suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 1.2.1+nmu1+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package libept has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1100178

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

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