Thanks all for your help and advises. That's perfect!
I'll have a look into it. :)
Joseph
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 1:36 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> Does it have revdeps or not? If it does, you can't just remove it. If it
> doesn't, I'd say don't maintain libs which no one needs.
There is one reverse dependency:
$ ssh mirror.ftp-master.debian.org dak rm -s unstable -Rn libmrss
...
On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 11:20:49 -0800, Joseph Herlant wrote:
> 5. Once there is no more package depending on yours (probably after a
> few months), ask the ftp masters to remove the package from testing
> and unstable via a mail to their list.
"From unstable" (it will be removed automatically from t
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:20:49AM -0800, Joseph Herlant wrote:
> > Yes, this needs to be done.
>
>
> Thanks for your answer.
> So is the list I was putting in my initial mail correct for this use case?
>
> 3. Open bugs on all depending packages (including those who use it as
> build dependencie
> Yes, this needs to be done.
Thanks for your answer.
So is the list I was putting in my initial mail correct for this use case?
3. Open bugs on all depending packages (including those who use it as
build dependencies) to have them switch to something else.
4. Open a bug for your package explain
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 09:32:52AM -0800, Joseph Herlant wrote:
> * libmrss has received no upstream commit over the last 10 years and
> the author confirmed that he won't touch it anymore. I'm fine
> continuing to maintain the packaging part it's a very easy one! :) I
> was just wondering if after
Hi guys,
Thanks for your answers.
> A project stopping development is not a reason to delete the package from
> the distro. Hence no docs.
My bad, I thought it was a best practice after a few years without
maintenance to do that. Sorry :\
> The first step when asking questions should always be
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 2:34 PM, Joseph Herlant wrote:
> Did I miss a step?
The first step when asking questions should always be to include
details so that we know what we are talking about.
> I have a package that is not maintained by upstream anymore and I was trying
> to find some sort of ch
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:34:00PM -0800, Joseph Herlant wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have a package that is not maintained by upstream anymore and I was
> trying to find some sort of checklist on how to best manage its end of life.
>
> I can't find it in the documentation. Is it somewhere I missed?
A
Hi guys,
I have a package that is not maintained by upstream anymore and I was
trying to find some sort of checklist on how to best manage its end of life.
I can't find it in the documentation. Is it somewhere I missed?
Here is what I had in mind:
1. Confirm with upstream that they dropped the d
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