Hi Andreas, On Sat, Oct 05, 2024 at 10:53:29AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > this bug came up as some candidate for the Bug of the Day[1] today. > Usually the package salvage team is creating a Git repository (which I > did[2] for your comfort in case you might want to keep the package > either in Salvage team or debian/ or whereever it might make sense) and > file an ITS bug to salvage the package. However, the package does not > really fulfill the ITS criteria[3] so I'm hesitating to do so. > > The package is simply orphaned upstream and has no real users (since > 2018 the vote number in popcon is maximum 1[4]). Thus I woncer whether > the package should rather be removed from unstable. In case you > consider the package worth keeping in Debian please let us know what > team you might consider sensible as the maintainer of this package. > I would volunteer to upgrade the packaging to latest standards and > do some team upload if you want me to do so. > > Kind regards > Andreas. > > [1] https://salsa.debian.org/tille/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks > [2] https://salsa.debian.org/salvage-team/fair > [3] > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging > [4] > https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=fair&show_installed=on&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 >
Thanks your work on improving Debian. In https://bugs.debian.org/1039195 I read "transitional sysv-init-to-unit generator [...] is in the process of being deprecated and will be removed by the time Trixie ships, so the remaining packages that ship init scripts without systemd units will stop working." Has this decision about the Trixie release been taken? (I missed that.) Or is there still some chance of the compatibility surviving the release? Do you happen to have any pointers on this? I'm curious on what Guus feels about this. I myself am doubting about the usefulness of removing packages which do not have any RC bug. But happy to follow Guus's opinion on what's best in this specific case. Bye, Joost
