Control: clone 902385 -2 Control: reassign -2 ftp.debian.org Control: retitle -2 RM: blacs-pvm -- RoQA; blacs-test-common depends on removed package; PVM no longer used for parallel computing Control: severity -2 normal
Muammar El Khatib writes: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 3:00 PM Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@debian.org> wrote: [...] >> blacs-pvm-test depends on blacs-test-common which was just removed >> (#886711). >> >> I wonder if blacs-pvm is still useful? pvm was orphaned (#824403) and I >> don't know anyone still using PVM for parallel computations. > > Given that blacs-test-common was removed and honestly PVM does not > seem to be used for parallel computing, it makes lots of sense to me > that blacs-pvm should be removed, too. By the way, I have just seen > it's been marked as AUTORM and will be removed anyway. Then, no > actions to take it back into Debian archive might be the right thing > to do. The automatic removal is only from testing. There still needs to be a manual removal request to remove the package also from unstable; the beginning of this mail should take care of creating one. Ansgar
