retitle 319817 RM: openmosix -- RoQA; Outdated and buggy tags 319817 moreinfo thanks
Stephen, Can you please comment on the below? Micah, it's appreciated when making such type of requests to X-Debbugs-Cc the maintainer in question. Thanks, --Jeroen On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 07:18:05PM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote: > As discussed on the debian-qa list[1], please remove the openmosix and > kernel-patch-openmosix packages from the archive. > > The openmosix package has a serious FTBS (#232810) for 1 year and 159 > days old as of this writing. The maintainer's response is, > "Unfortunately I don't tend to use OpenMosix any more...If someone's > interested in OpenMosix for 2.4 and want to see it in sarge I'd > encourage them to hijack the package or contact me about getting the > issues fixed...". The package has other important bugs that are > trivial to fix (#230460) and are nearly two years old. > > The kernel-patch-openmosix has a known security bug (#319621), and no > fix is pending (the maintainer said on IRC that the latest patch was > for 2.4.26 and that there are most likely many problems with this > patch, and that you "just can't get worked up over problems in 2+ year > old software".) The kernel-patch-openmosix has a wishlist bug > (#264290) for over a year asking to upgrade and it includes a patch in > the bug report. > > When the maintainer made it clear that he did not care to maintain the > packages any longer, I suggested that he do the nice thing and RFA > them. He's unhelpful retort was that anyone can RFA them, suggesting > that I do so instead of bothering him to take care of his package > appropriately. > > The Openmosix packages were not allowed into Sarge because of the > horrible state that they are in, and in my opinion the packages do not > provide any added value to the archive, but instead are a blight. > > > 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2005/07/msg00168.html -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
