Source: star Version: 1.5final-2 Severity: serious Justification: FTBFS, somewhat low popcon, alternatives are Essential: yes User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: proposed-removal
star seems like a possible candidate for removal from Debian: * somewhat low, and declining popcon (73 votes) * two RC FTBFS bugs in the build system * alternatives exist (GNU tar is Essential: yes) * no rdepends; no reverse-recommends without alternatives * no maintainer upload since 2008-07-01 Nothing seems to depend on star. dvbackup and flexbackup recommend it, but only among alternatives (dvbackup prefers star, flexbackup prefers afio). One of the advantages stated in the Description is that it's "the only tar implementation under Linux capable of archiving Access Control Lists". This no longer seems to be true, now that we have bsdtar (I was surprised to find that GNU tar doesn't do ACLs yet, though). If you want to keep this package around in Debian, please just close this bug, and do an upload to fix the issues in it. If you don't think it's worth keeping, please send the following commands to cont...@bugs.debian.org, replacing nnnnnn with this bug's number: severity nnnnnn normal reassign nnnnnn ftp.debian.org retitle nnnnnn RM: star -- RoM; <reasons> thanks For more information, see http://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt Regards, smcv
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