Control: severity -1 serious
Control: retitle -1 Should qhttpengine be removed from Debian?
Thanks
Hi Nicolas,
Am Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 11:30:38AM +0100 schrieb Nicolas Schodet:
> I am not sure the package is worth salvaging:
>
> - Being an HTTP server, it may be security sensitive.
> - There was only one upload, which may indicate the original uploader
> has no plan to keep working on Debian.
> - There is no reverse dependency on this package.
> - The last upstream release is 7 years old.
> - Popularity in popcon is really low.
> - Upstream seems to be working on nitroshare2, which is written in Go,
> and therefore does not need this library anymore.
>
> The first point is what worries me the most, the other points question
> whether it is worth the effort.
Thank you for those very valid points. I re-evaluated the situation
(learned that the last release was nearly 8 years ago) and its also
based on Qt5 - so we will run probably into some porting trouble once
this will be droped from Debian. Thanks also for the hint that the main
upstream author moved to some other project.
Thus I'm hereby retitling the bug from ITS to a Pre-Removal bug. Given
that the maintainer has not responded yet I raise severity to serious
to attract attention.
In 10 days I will turn this bug into a request for removal in case there
will be no hints that this package might be valuable inside Debian and
there is someone willing to maintain this package seriously (including
porting to Qt6).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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