Control: retitle -1 RM: dailystrips: Package says in README.Debian "package may
be often out of date" and is not maintained for >10 years
Thanks
Am Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 08:35:10AM -0500 schrieb Paul R. Tagliamonte:
> 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.
Sure. This was intended but something went wrong when I filed the bug report
as RoQA.
Hope this works now
Andreas.
> 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, this package may be often out of date,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
> >
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