On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 05:32:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > This week's assignment is to pick between 10 and 20 source packages > each to be removed from testing and/or unstable. Assignments are due > next Monday (25th), and should look like: > > Package: pretzel > Testing: 2.0n-1.1 > Unstable: 2.0n-1.1 > Bugs: 196579 > Suggestion: remove-from-testing > Analysis: > Bug has been open for over two months, has had a patch for about > a month and a half, no comments from the maintainer. No indication > it'll be solved anytime soon.
Package: boot-floppies Testing: 3.0.22 Unstable: 3.0.23 Bugs: 155374 Suggestion: remove-from-testing Analysis: Might as well start with a controversial one! Since we're going to release with debian-installer, now would be a good time to eliminate the confusion that still occasionally results from the continued presence of the boot-floppies package. I'm only suggesting remove-from-testing for now because the unstable distribution is the only one to contain the actual boot-floppies source with which we released woody, and removing that would be a bad idea. That should be a candidate for a stable point release, upon which it could be removed from unstable too. Package: gnews Testing: 0.1.3-2 Unstable: 0.1.3-2 Bugs: 183240 Suggestion: remove-from-testing Analysis: Uninstallable, bug open for five months. Waiting for upstream to port it to GNOME 2, which doesn't seem particularly forthcoming. Package: innovation3d-plugins Testing: 0.0.20010726-1 Unstable: 0.0.20010726-1 Bugs: 180501 Suggestion: remove-from-testing Analysis: Depends on Qt2, and so uninstallable in unstable; bug open for six months, RC for four. It's actually still installable in testing, but won't be if we want to have KDE 3. Package: kdebindings Testing: 2.2.2-3 Unstable: 2.2.2-4 Bugs: 192490 Suggestion: remove-from-unstable Analysis: This is still installable in testing, actually, but only because it's one of the packages holding back KDE 3. It's orphaned, nothing in unstable depends on it, and the KDE maintainer agrees with removing it for now (see http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde-0308/msg00183.html). Package: kernel-patch-ttl Testing: 2.4.18-1 Unstable: 2.4.18-1 Bugs: 172986 Suggestion: remove-from-testing Analysis: Fails to build due to new dh_kpatches requirement, bug filed eight months ago. No response from maintainer. Package: ldmud Testing: 3.2.9.354-1 Unstable: 3.2.9.427-1 Bugs: not-filed Suggestion: remove-outdated-binaries Analysis: Non-free, old binary (3.2.9.354-1) on alpha. Package: open-amulet Testing: 4.3.1-7.1 Unstable: 4.3.1-7.1 Bugs: 161670 201866 Suggestion: remove-from-testing Analysis: Fails to build in various ways; 161670 open for nearly a year, 201866 open for a month. No maintainer upload since December 2001. Package: orp Testing: 1:1.0.9-1 Unstable: 1:1.0.9-1 Bugs: 178732 185881 Suggestion: remove-from-testing Analysis: Completely broken as reported in #178732; bug open for seven months with no response from the maintainer. Doesn't build either; bug open for five months with no response from the maintainer. Note that orp-classpath depends on this, but is obviously useless itself with a broken orp. Package: qnix Testing: 0.2.1-1 Unstable: 0.2.1-1 Bugs: 187056 Suggestion: remove-from-unstable Analysis: Built for KDE 2.2, bug filed for five months, no response from maintainer, only one upload ever (October 2001), upstream inactive. Package: siege-ssl Testing: 2.55-1 Unstable: 2.55-1 Bugs: 195168 Suggestion: remove-from-testing Analysis: Fails to build, bug open for three months. No comments from the maintainer, who hasn't been seen since May. Package: solfege Testing: 1.4.7-1 Unstable: 1.9.11-1 Bugs: 196095 Suggestion: remove-from-testing Analysis: Caught short in the Python 2.2 transition, now uninstallable in testing, and all sorts of things have to be updated before it can become installable again. Let's remove it until that happens. Package: sourcenav Testing: 5.0-4.1 Unstable: 5.0-4.1 Bugs: 191815 Suggestion: remove-from-testing Analysis: Fails to build with current flex, bug open for three and a half months. No response from the maintainer, who is famously inactive; no maintainer upload since February 2002. Package: thoughttracker Testing: 0.5.6-12 Unstable: 0.5.6-16 Bugs: 176809 Suggestion: remove-from-testing Analysis: Depends on library that's been gone from unstable for ages and that we want to remove from testing. New version fails to build on arm, m68k, mips, mipsel; bug 198905 filed two months ago, no response. One of the last packages holding up the libsigc++ dependency chain (at least once glibc is fixed). Package: uae Testing: 0.8.20.deb1-3 Unstable: 0.8.20.deb1-3 Bugs: 190258 Suggestion: remove-from-testing Analysis: Fails to build for strange assembler reasons. Bug filed four months ago, patch sent over a month ago. No comments from the maintainer. Package: ucbmpeg Testing: - Unstable: 1r2-9 Bugs: 191935 Suggestion: remove-outdated-binaries Analysis: Non-free, old binaries (1r2-6, 1r2-6.1) on arm, powerpc, sparc. Package: vold Testing: 1.1-10 Unstable: 1.1-10 Bugs: 138404 Suggestion: remove-from-testing Analysis: Fails to build with g++-3.0 and later. Bug open for nearly a year and a half. No comments from the maintainer. Only recommending removal from testing and not unstable because it does seem to fill a niche (slightly different from an automounter). Package: xslideshow Testing: - Unstable: 3.1-6 Bugs: not-filed Suggestion: remove-outdated-binaries Analysis: Non-free, old binaries (3.1-4, 3.1-5) on alpha, arm, powerpc, sparc. Package: xsnow Testing: 1.41-1 Unstable: 1.42-3 Bugs: not-filed Suggestion: remove-outdated-binaries Analysis: Non-free, old binaries (1.41-1) on ia64, sparc. Package: xtend Testing: 1.2b4-1.1 Unstable: 1.2b4-1.1 Bugs: 190552 Suggestion: remove-from-testing Analysis: Uninstallable in unstable, since heyu was removed due to having a non-free licence (#185031, which I guess is still an RC bug in testing, really). Due to that, I think we would be better off releasing without these two packages. In #185031, the maintainer said that he is no longer able to maintain these packages; I've delegated this upwards to tbm. :-) Package: zope-ldap Testing: 1.1.0-2 Unstable: 1.1.0-2 Bugs: 185800 Suggestion: remove-from-testing Analysis: Broken with current zope, bug filed five months ago, unmaintained upstream and Debian maintainer apparently doesn't know how to fix it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
