Hello everyone, just adding the following from a user-perspective:
I was quite surprised that a tool i'm using since two decades and on a nearly weekly base is getting suddenly removed from Debian. And when looking at the title of the relevant bug report of the removal to notice a "broken and unreliable" while that tool is neither broken nor unreliable for the use cases i'm using it (i have no idea what the previous mentioned "limited usecases" means and if that is the case for me). I would be very grateful if this decision is revisited and as long as this tool is actually not broken and is doing what it should for it's user base to keep it available until a drop-in replacement* has been found and/or communicated. And if "debfoster" is a 1to1 alternative to deborphan what about providing some kind of metapackage with a readme on the reasons / transition to that debfoster package so that users are not left in the dark what to choose instead? * Drop-in replacement in the meaning that i don't need to figure out some regex calls passed to "apt" or similar. Disclaimer: As already mentioned previously this is not about dropping the package in general, but providing at least *some* visible/public guidance for users of such a popular package so that it's user base is not left in the dark.
