Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 09:58:33AM -0800, Andrew Pollock wrote: >On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 05:49:53PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hi Andrew, >> >> I'm working through the list of build failures for armhf while we >> bring up the new architecture, and I've just got to elfsign. I'm >> concerned about the status of this package: >> >> * the last maintainer upload into Debian was over 6 years ago >> * there is a serious bug open against it for a long time (#555668) >> with no update for a year, and now it FTBFS since at least >> September (#641690) >> * a very low popcon score suggests it has a very small number of >> users >> >> Are you likely to have any time to work on this, or should we drop it >> out of the archive? > >I think we should just drop it. IIRC, it's dead upstream, so the serious bug >is never going to get fixed, and I lack the capabilities to maintain it in >that capacity in Debian.
OK, fair enough. Let's do that then. Thanks for your work on it, anyway! ftpmasters: please remove elfsign. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm afraid I'll miss my stop" -- Vivek Dasmohapatra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
