Control: severity -1 important On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 09:43:04 -0300 Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 06:26:06PM +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > > Package: ruby-hpricot > > Version: 0.8.6-5 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: obsolete > > > > ruby-hpricot is obsolete. > > > > Upstream has this to say: > > > > > # Hpricot is over. > > > > > > After years of lack of a proper maintainer for one of why's jewels, it > > > has been > > > decided to finally close the book on hpricot. Most users have migrated to > > > alternatives > > > and there is simply no time or energy to continue with the current > > > codebase. > > > > > > If you feel that you have the time and wish to take it over, I suggest > > > you instead > > > think about making the hpricot-like API within nokogiri 100% compatible, > > > that is a better > > > use of your time. > > > > > > But if you still feel like "No damnit, I wanna work on hpricot itself > > > still!" then fork > > > this repo and start work. Send @evanphx or @nicksieger a message if you > > > feel like you > > > want to take over the gem name with new releases under the hpricot name. > > > > > > Thanks to \_why for all the fun. We'll never forget it. > > > > If your package depends on ruby-hpricot, please move away from it > > immediately. > > > > We're not going to have ruby-hpricot in stretch. > > ruby-hpricot has now only 2 reverse dependencies: ruby-ronn and > ruby-fast-fs. However, the number of packages build-depending on > ruby-ronn only grows, and is currently at 54¹ > > ¹ comitup coquelicot cura-engine dbab elektra foodcritic foremancli > gazebo git-extras haproxyctl ignition-math2 ignition-math2 > ignition-transport ignition-transport jq maim npm pacapt pgloader > python-lua qiime r10k ruby-coveralls ruby-ghi seqprep shapelib slt > unburden-home-dir vcsh comitup coquelicot dbab elektra foodcritic > foremancli gazebo git-extras haproxyctl ignition-math2 > ignition-transport jq maim npm pacapt pgloader r10k ruby-coveralls > ruby-ghi seqprep shapelib unburden-home-dir vcsh pgcharts pycsw > > ruby-hpricot is indeed dead upstream, but so is a lot of software in > Debian. Also, being dead upstream does not mean not being useful, or > necessarily being broken. > > So I think we should give up on removing ruby-hpricot until at least one > of the following happen: > > - ruby-ronn gets rewritten to not use ruby-hpricot (unlikely since ronn > is dead upstream itself) > - something else can replace ruby-ronn and we manage to make reverse > (build) dependencies switch to it. > - ruby-hpricot gets broken by a future update to Ruby in a way that is > unfixable and we have no other option.
since I heard no objections, I am therefore downgrading this bug to make it non-RC. I will be glad if/when we can remove ruby-hpricot from Debian, but for now it is just not viable.
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