On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:27:35AM +0100, Patrick Schönfeld wrote: > recently I stumbled across ripole and noticed the following facts: > > * no upstream release since over 10 years > > * it has been orphaned since 4 years > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673950 > > * a bug indicating that it crashes on fresh installations > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=716232
nobody confirmed that bug in 3 years, so I wouldn't give it so much
weight.
OTOH it has quite a big popcon, 2604 of installed.
> Given that the tool has been marked to be "in a development phase" since
> basically forever, abandoned upstream and abandoned in Debian
> So I'm asking you: Should this package RoQA'd?
usually we don't remove a package just because it's abandoned, but we
somehow wait for it to completely break down.
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