Source: mcron
Version: 1.0.8-1.1
Severity: serious
Justification: grab attention of maintainer
X-Debbugs-Cc: Dale Mellor <dale_mel...@users.sourceforge.net>, Package
Salvaging Team <team+salv...@tracker.debian.org>
Dear Dale,
I suggest removing mcron from Debian for the following reasons:
* Debian has bcron, cron, cronie and systemd-cron providing the
virtual package cron-daemon
* mcron seems to be just another cron daemon and it has the
lowest usage compared to the above
udd=# select package, insts, vote from popcon where package like '%cron%' and
package in ('bcron', 'cron', 'cronie', 'mcron', 'systemd-cron') order by vote
desc;
package | insts | vote
--------------+--------+--------
cron | 245259 | 218615
systemd-cron | 572 | 458
cronie | 29 | 29
bcron | 14 | 9
mcron | 14 | 1
(5 Zeilen)
* Simple usage stats are surely not a good reason but it also
does not seem not actively maintained. One strong reason is
that it is not even providing the cron-daemon virtual package.
(see bug #909691)
* Bug reports later than Sept 2018 are not answered.
* The package was uploaded twice by you as the maintainer-last time
more than 10 years ago-and is lagging severely behind upstream
This bug serves as a pre-removal warning. After one month, the bug will be
reassigned to ftp.debian.org to actually request removal of the package.
In case the package should be kept in unstable, I'd happily help
migrating it to Salsa to the debian/ team and fix most of the open bugs.
In case the package should be removed from unstable, you may reassign this
bug report:
Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 RM: mcron -- RoM; rc-buggy
Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:mcron
Alternatively, you may wait a month and have it reassigned.
In case you disagree with the above, please add a wontfix tag to this bug.
Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Your package was highlighted in the Bug of the Day[1] initiative, which
aims to introduce newcomers to manageable tasks and guide them through
the workflow to solve them. The focus of this initiative is on migrating
packages to Salsa, as it's a great way to familiarize newcomers with a
consistent Git-based workflow.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/tille/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (50, 'buildd-unstable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.3.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
