Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal I wrote vmdebootstrap in 2011, originally. It has been maintained by others since then, upstream and in Debian. I am now again the upstream and Debian maintainer since last year.
As upstream, I am ashamed of having written such a lousy program. It has a bad architecture that makes the software inflexible, difficult to modify, hard to test, and it is not suitable for large number of use cases. I admit a number of people have managed to make use of it. There are better options now: I wrote vmdb2, and there is debos. FAI is probably also better than vmdebootstrap. As upstream, I want vmdebootstrap gone. This means it should be removed from Debian as well. I don't want someone else to adopt it: it's that bad. It is my birthday and my birthday wish to be rid of this blight. (Whenever ftpmaster has time for it is fine: I just want to make the request today.) I've announced my intention to ask vmdebootstrap to be removed on debian-cloud, in NEWS.Debian in the package, on debian-devel-announce, and in my blog, at various points this year, so I feel I've given ample warning. unstable still has two reverse dependencies: lava and live-wrapper.
