Hi Sandro, On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 4:36 AM Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> wrote: > Debian is trying to remove Python 2 from the distribution > (https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal) and i stumbled across archipel. > > It looks like this project is no longer maintained upstream: > > * https://github.com/ArchipelProject/Archipel latest commit is more than 3 > years > ago > * the homepage http://archipelproject.org/ returns an error from cloudflare > and > the wayback machine can find an actual page only back in April 2018 > * the mailing list https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/archipelproject has > no new post (execpt to report the website down) since early 2016 Indeed, this is the case. It was a promising project that my employer might use and good for the community of Debian as well. But now upstream is dead an it seems no one is out there to fork it or continue with it in any way.
> It is my belief we should remove archipel* packages from Debian, in particular > because they are a close-set of packages, and they could ideally allow other > python2 packages to be removed (as archipel* will disappear as their > reverse-dependencies). Yup, these packages can go away immediately. > If i dont hear back in a week, i'll file RM bugs for all the aforementioned > packages. I'm in a rush now but will try to file the RM bug(s) today or if you may have more time please do it yourself. Thanks for the heads-up, Laszlo/GCS
