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and subject line Bug#1129537: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #1129537,
regarding RM: streamtuner2 -- Very Few Users, Buggy, Dead Upstream, No Uploads
in Years
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Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
Control: affects -1 streamtuner2
streamtuner2 is a program that provides the ability to access Internet
Radio Stations.
According to the Package page:
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streamtuner2 is a browser for radio station directories. It can fetch
lists from SHOUTcast, Xiph.org, Live365, Jamendo, DMOZ, basic.ch,
Punkcast. And it lists stream entries by category or genre. It reuses
existing audio players, and recording is delegated to streamripper.
It mimics the original streamtuner 0.99.99, but is easier to extend
because it's written entirely in Python. It's already in a stable and
useable form.
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However, there are several reasons to consider removal:
- There are bugs inherent to the software related to multiple radio
station lists that it tries to use being dead for a very long time (as
seen in [1]). (Note that this references Ask Ubuntu questions for issues
downstream in Ubuntu, but there is no difference in the version of the
package in Ubuntu vs. Unstable).
- It has a very low number of installations according to popcon [2]
- The project has been dead upstream since 2022 and is no longer
updated or maintained there.
- It has potential bugs which prevent it from being safely used in
newer releases [3]
- The package is affected by pygtkcompat being removed from pygobject
and has been listed in the BTS as having this issue since February 1st,
2025, over a year ago. This is not a critical release issue for Trixie
but is an RC bug. [4] (#1094922)
- There has not been an upload from the maintainer according to the
package tracker since 2022 (last upstream release).
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Given that the package has no upstream support and is dead, there is no
maintainer uploads since 2022, it has usability bugs not reported in
BTS, and has some RC-critical and blocking bugs that block it from
Testing completely, and other issues identified above, I suggest that
streamtuner2 be removed from Debian.
Thomas Ward
[1]:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1564504/alternative-or-fix-for-streamtuner2
[2]: https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=streamtuner2
[3]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1120496
[4]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1094922
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--- Begin Message ---
We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
streamtuner2 | 2.2.2+dfsg-2.2 | source, all
------------------- Reason -------------------
Very Few Users, Buggy, Dead Upstream, No Uploads in Years
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Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it). Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next
dinstall run at the earliest.
Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is
really needed, please contact them if this should be the case.
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correctly or should have been re-assigned to another package.
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