Package: sumika Version: 0.11-2.1 Severity: serious Tags: squeeze --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
Hello, I think that this package is unsuitable to be released in squeeze. The source package is 6 years old (2004-04-10), but there's a 0.12 release just a month later [1] which was not packaged for Debian, even if new Debian packages were uploaded after 0.12 had been released upstream. It's listed as pre-alpha software and didn't have an upstream release in the last 6 years. There's only one bug report upstream, not fixed and not acknowledged nor closed [2]. Debian bug reports include #349897 (as old as Jan 2006) which related the impossibility to use the program due to a segfault when starting it, and it was confirmed by other person. It also includes #345180, a whishlist bug providing swedish PO translation, which was not acknowleged. In the end, no bugs reported to Debian since ~2005 were attended at all, the maintainer never reacted to any of them. The last upload of the package is a NMU from 2005 fixing a FTBFS, which the maintainer never acknowleged. There are multiple lintian errors too, including creating menus in the wrong sections, ancient libtools and standards version, deprecated debhelper compatibility version. The binary program that this program packages lacks any kind of documentation, nor manpage, nor even a simple explanation in a dialog box. The documentation in the website includes only instructions to build it, not to use it in any way. For all of this and unless the package is updated, I think that it's not suitable to be released in Squeeze. [1] http://sourceforge.jp/projects/sumika/releases/?fulllist=1 [2] http://sourceforge.jp/projects/sumika/ticket Cheers. --- System information. --- Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 Debian Release: squeeze/sid 800 unstable www.debian-multimedia.org 800 unstable ftp.ch.debian.org 500 testing security.debian.org --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed ==============================-+-============= libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0) | 1.30.0-1 libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1) | 2.11.2-2 libgdome2-0 | 0.8.1+debian-4 libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0) | 2.24.1-1 libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0) | 2.20.1-1 libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.8.2) | 1.28.1-1 libxml2 (>= 2.6.21) | 2.7.7.dfsg-4 zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1) | 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 Package's Recommends field is empty. Package's Suggests field is empty. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
