retitle 653168 RM: oprofile - unmaintained, replacements exist, buggy, low
popcon
reassign 653168 ftp.debian.org
severity 653168 normal
thanks
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 03:55:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 04:56:55PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > Source: oprofile
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > oprofile seems like a candidate for removal:
> >
> > - Last maintainer upload in 2009
> > - No followup to security or RC bugs from the maintainers
> > - Low popcon
> > - Alternatives exist (perf)
> > - Depends on legacy libs (604366)
> > - Broken wih current kernels (615964)
> >
> > Unless there're objections/fixes, I'll file a removal bug in a month.
> >
>
> Moritz,
>
> I have no objection. I become co-maintainer of oprofile a little over
> two years ago because one of my clients was using it and needed some
> work done on the package. The maintainer was not especially responsive
> at that time, so I did what needed to be done. However, my client has
> since moved away from using oprofile and when I asked to be removed as
> co-maintainer I heard nothing at all. Based on that, I think that the
> maintainer is probably MIA, and removal seems like the right thing.
OK, reassigning to ftp.debian.org, then.
Cheers,
Moritz
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