Package: wnpp Severity: normal Acoording to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=959115#10 (also attached) the ruby-curses package in Debian is orphaned since at least April 2020 (last upload April 2018) as both the team listed in the Maintainer field as well as the person listed in the Uploaders field (all X-Debbugs-CC'ed) stated back then, that they are not maintaining this package. And there was no new upload since then either.
This probably also explains why the package lacks multiple generations of new upstream releases (currently 1.2.4 vs 1.4.4 according to https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ruby-curses) despite there is an related bug report from April 2020. (https://bugs.debian.org/958973, refering already to upstream version 1.3.2.) That bug report now has become release-critical as the outdated version 1.2.4 in Debian Unstable is not compatible with Ruby 3.0. And Ruby 3.0 is now is in both Debian Unstable and Testing for more than a month, making probably all reverse dependencies unusable (Discovering #959115 after raising the severity of #958973 to release-critical actually triggered this package-orphaning mail.) Some information on the package: Package: ruby-curses Source: ruby-curses (1.2.4-1) Version: 1.2.4-1+b6 Installed-Size: 89 Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers <pkg-ruby-extras-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Depends: ruby (>= 1:3.0~0), libc6 (>= 2.4), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libtinfo6 (>= 6), libruby3.0 (>= 3.0.0~preview1), ruby (<< 1:3.1~) Description: curses binding for Ruby Ruby binding for curses, ncurses, and PDCurses. curses is an extension library for text UI applications. . This module is built with wide character support. Homepage: http://github.com/ruby/curses Ruby-Versions: ruby3.0 Tag: uitoolkit::ncurses Section: ruby Priority: optional Filename: pool/main/r/ruby-curses/ruby-curses_1.2.4-1+b6_amd64.deb Size: 22176 Package: ruby-curses Binary: ruby-curses Version: 1.2.4-1 Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers <pkg-ruby-extras-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Uploaders: Andrej Shadura <andre...@debian.org> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), gem2deb, libncursesw5-dev Architecture: any Standards-Version: 3.9.7 Format: 3.0 (quilt) Files: 75861e824ca9ea030b68b70d4fcb87c9 1752 ruby-curses_1.2.4-1.dsc 866cd65ade499eaedbbaab7e35887b22 31399 ruby-curses_1.2.4.orig.tar.gz e21b2f8e218d1b13966a30f9e44c073c 2908 ruby-curses_1.2.4-1.debian.tar.xz Vcs-Browser: https://browse.dgit.debian.org/ruby-curses.git/ Vcs-Git: https://git.dgit.debian.org/ruby-curses Homepage: http://github.com/ruby/curses Dgit: 4eab6fe2b7f725fc089335ad43387e234bd1bb02 debian archive/debian/1.2.4-1 https://git.dgit.debian.org/ruby-curses Package-List: ruby-curses deb ruby optional arch=any Ruby-Versions: all Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-ruby Directory: pool/main/r/ruby-curses Priority: optional Section: misc Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
--- Begin Message ---On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:20:42AM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > This package says its maintained by the Debian Ruby team, but it's not > in the team repositories. > > Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers > <pkg-ruby-extras-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> > Uploaders: Andrej Shadura <andre...@debian.org> > [...] > Vcs-Browser: https://browse.dgit.debian.org/ruby-curses.git/ > Vcs-Git: https://git.dgit.debian.org/ruby-curses > > If it's intendent to be team-maintained, it should be added to the > ruby-team group on salsa. Otherwise, please do not list the team in the > Maintainer: field. Thanks for noticing. I do not intend to use or maintain this package, feel free to properly take it over. Since it is currently in dgit only, the repo is missing the upstream branch (since dgit doesn’t preserve it), but I’m sure it should be fairly easy to identify the commit the branch should be pointing at. -- Cheers, Andrej
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