On Monday, August 26, 2019 6:01:05 PM EDT Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 7/26/19 6:53 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > It's true it's not extinct, but it's close. It's only used by several > > dozen packages now. If someone wanted to push to get dpatch completely > > out of the archive this cycle, I think it would be perfectly reasonable. > > The project has voted with their feet. > > I wish we had release goals again, because that would really be a > perfect fit. > > Do you have the list of affected package available? How about we tackle > this in a sprint, let's say, in Vaumarcus?
Here's the packages with dpatch in build-depends (they would all need checking - I assume lintian only uses it for its test suite): reverse-depends -b dpatch Reverse-Build-Depends ===================== * bopm * cadaver * check-mk * cryptcat * docbook2odf * dvbsnoop * efax * elscreen * flexbackup * flow-tools * gkrellm-x86info * ibam * ippl * libdumbnet * libmdsp * lifelines * lintian * manpages-es * mgetty * myspell * noweb * nwall * ocaml-expat * ocamlodbc * python-authkit * python-toscawidgets * qmc * readline5 * redet * scim-canna * scim-skk * shanty * spell * synaptic * syrep * tapecalc * tcm * txt2regex * vdk2 * vsdump * wbox * xaw3d * xcal * xsysinfo * xxgdb Scott K
