I suggest someone looking for a removal file a ROM bug so this shows up in the tracker when we go through and process removals.
https://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals On Fri, Dec 6, 2024, 8:21 AM Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: Rene Weber <rene_debma...@public.e-mail.elvenlord.com>, > Package Salvaging Team <team+salv...@tracker.debian.org>, Bastian Germann > <b...@debian.org> > > Hi, > > since dailystrips was a candidate for the Bug of the Day today I had a > look into the package and imported it into Salsa. When looking at > debian/README.Debian[1] which says: > > Due to the high volatility of the strip information stored in > </usr/share/dailystrips/strips.def>, this package may be often out of date, > especially in Debian's "stable" release. > WARNING: As upstream development seems to have ceased, use of > "dailystrips-update" is no longer recommended. As such, it has been > neutered, and will be removed in a future release of this package. Please > remove it from any automated jobs. > > you might guess that this package needs care very freqwently. There is > some fork at Github[2] with latest update 9 years ago and the patch > shipped inside the Debian package was also not maintained for a long > time (despite it was just created in Bastians NMU where he created > a source format 3.0 compatible patch). > > Another measure is the number of bugs requesting adaptations (with or > without patches) which are not answered. > > So we can somehow assume the package is non-functional and unmaintained > which does not make any sense for this package. That's why I suggest to > remove it from Debian. > > Kind regards and thank you for your work as ftpmaster > Andreas. > > [1] > https://salsa.debian.org/salvage-team/dailystrips/-/blob/master/debian/README.debian?ref_type=heads > [2] https://github.com/Lambik/dailystrips > [3] > https://salsa.debian.org/salvage-team/dailystrips/-/blob/master/debian/patches/debian.patch?ref_type=heads >
