Package: netkit-base
Severity: grave
It's been filed for removal from sid:
Please could you remove netkit-base (netkit-inetd, netkit-ping) from
unstable (and testing once this is possible)?
netkid-base is:
* abandoned upstream for many years
* unmaintained in Debian for two years
* does not build from unpatched upstream source
* upstream source is of poor quality
* it will never support IPv6
* netkit-inetd is superceded in testing and unstable by openbsd-inetd
* netkit-inetd now has no reverse dependencies (other than an alternative
depends in ltsp-server, which is being dealt with; this should not
prevent removal. See #382681 for more detail).
* netkit-ping has three reverse dependencies (mrtg-ping-probe,
heartbeat, heartbeat-2) but all are alternative dependencies. I will
be filing bugs against these three packages, but all allow
iputils-ping as the alternative.
So it should most likely be hinted out of testing.
Cheers,
Moritz
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