Hi Andreas, Thank you for the heads up.
Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2025. máj. 25., V, 7:05): > > Source: libkaz > Version: 1.21-2 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: Balint Reczey <bal...@balintreczey.hu>, Package Salvaging Team > <team+salv...@tracker.debian.org> > > Dear Balint, > > I know you are typically answering fast but for documentation issues I'm > communicating via this bug report. Your package came up as some Bug of > the Day[1] candidate. So I had a look and first realised that the > latest changelog entry in Git[2] was (most probably accidentally) not > uploaded. Thus I kept on adding changes (fixed Vcs fields and watch > file). However, I started wondering whether we might need that package > at all in Debian any more. If you think it might be important for some > corner cases please feel free to say so. Regarding the open bugs its > a great target for the Bug of the Day idea and I'd volunteer to polish > the package and do some Debian-team upload. > > However, I suggest removing libkaz from Debian for the following reasons: > > * The library is aged and not maintained upstream any more OTOH it still works. > * There are different modern alternatives (GLib, uthash-dev and others) > * No C11 features > * There are no votes in popcon > https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=libkaz > * Leaf package Those are true. OTOH there are copies of various files in the archive and it may be useful to have the originals in the archive as well: https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=Kylheku&literal=1&perpkg=1 > This bug serves as a pre-removal warning. After one month, the bug will be > reassigned to ftp.debian.org to actually request removal of the package. > > In case the package should be removed from unstable, you may reassign this > bug report: > > Control: severity -1 normal > Control: retitle -1 RM: libkaz -- RoM; orphaned upstream, outdated > Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org > Control: affects -1 + src:libkaz > > Alternatively, you may wait a month and have it reassigned. > > In case you disagree with the above, please add a wontfix tag to this bug. > As said above I'd volunteer to polish the package and close the open bugs. > > Control: tags -1 + wontfix I'm not sure either if keeping the package in the archive is worth it. I've uploaded -3 to leave it in a good shape in case someone would like to resume working on the package. Feel free to proceed with the removal. I planned to orphan the package, but I wanted the clean it up first. > Your package was highlighted in the Bug of the Day[1] initiative, which > aims to introduce newcomers to manageable tasks and guide them through > the workflow to solve them. The focus of this initiative is on migrating > packages to Salsa, as it's a great way to familiarize newcomers with a > consistent Git-based workflow. > > Kind regards and thank you for maintaining the package before Thank you for the initiative. Cheers, Balint > Andreas. > > > [1] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks > [2] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libkaz > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 13.0 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'buildd-unstable'), (50, 'unstable'), > (5, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 6.12.27-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN > Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not > set > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled
