Dear autounit Maintainers,
do you think autounit is still useful in Debian?
I've filed an RM bug as #964476, because it does look quite dead.
Please let me know your thoughts.
Thanks,
Chris
Dear possibly libifp-interested people,
I've asked ftpmaster to remove libifp, because:
| It has not seen an upload for 9+ years, and is a support library for
| iRiver media players, which I haven't seen in years either.
If you are still interested in this software, please indicate your
interest
Source: vzquota
Version: 3.1-4
Severity: serious
vzquota needs kernel support, specifically the "vz" patches. Debian
hasn't shipped those in a long time. By now it appears upstream
development has moved back behind more closed doors, and it's
unlikely we'll see anything for bullseye.
Continuing
Source: isakmpd
Version: 20041012-10
Severity: grave
Our isakmpd sources are by now 16 years old. The sources in OpenBSD
have in the meantime seen a number of improvements and security
fixes, plus protocol fixes.
Shipping such an old version with known security problems is a
disgrace to our
Source: vzctl
Version: 4.9.4-6
Severity: serious
vzctl needs kernel support, specifically the "vz" patches. Debian
hasn't shipped those in a long time. By now it appears upstream
development has moved back behind more closed doors, and it's
unlikely we'll see anything for bullseye.
Also, IIRC,
the case in Debian for firewalld, which loads
libmount1 and libnftables1, which use json-c and jansson
respectively. firewalld then crashes because of this.
Some detail:
* Michael Biebl [200628 21:27]:
> Am 28.06.20 um 21:16 schrieb Chris Hofstaedtler:
>
> > $ ldd /usr/lib/x86_
Hi Michael,
* Michael Biebl [200628 03:30]:
> Am 27.06.20 um 21:14 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> > [16014.637459] traps: firewalld[35622] general protection fault
> > ip:7f981342d7b2 sp:7ffe6abe4ed0 error:0 in
> > libjansson.so.4.11.1[7f981342c000+8000]
>
> Attached is a back trace.
It appears you
Package: blackbox
Version: 0.70.1-38
Severity: normal
There is a new upstream and a new release available:
https://github.com/bbidulock/blackboxwm/releases/tag/0.76
Please consider updating to it.
* Chris Hofstaedtler [200628 20:10]:
> your libraries BOTH export a symbol named json_object_iter_next,
> causing crashes for binaries that end up loading both (possibly
> transitively).
[..]
Upstream bugs:
https://github.com/json-c/json-c/issues/621
https://github.com/akheron/janss
Source: hotswap
Priority: important
hotswap is software for managing IDE drives, relying on the old
CONFIG_IDE=y IDE subsystem in the kernel. This was designed for
Linux kernel series 2.4.
On no Debian release architecture any current kernel enables
CONFIG_IDE. Therefore, in a normal Debian
Package: svtools
Version: 0.6-4
Severity: important
Hi,
the package "svtools" has been orphaned by its original maintainer
over 7 years ago. The Debian maintainer was also the upstream
maintainer. Upstream has archived the project, and the last change
was over 9 years ago.
Is this still useful
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
Hi,
please remove nanoblogger from unstable (and nanoblogger-extra). It
hasn't seen real maintenance in 10 years - unsuprisingly, given upstream
has declared the project being dead 7 years ago here:
* Pino Toscano [210525 10:44]:
[..]
> Hence, it looks to me it would be a better idea to simply remove aewm
> from Debian.
I've cloned this as #989074 against src:aewm. Parties interested in
keeping aewm can reply there to indicate their commitments and also
keep aewm in bullseye...
Chris
Package: ifenslave
Version: 2.11
Severity: serious
Only trivial configurations with no per-slave configurations seem to
work. I.e. the example in /usr/share/doc/ifenslave/examples/two_ethernet
works.
However, the example in /usr/share/doc/ifenslave/examples/two_hotplug_ethernet
does not - the
Source: acpica-unix
Priority: wishlist
A long time ago, acpixtract and acpidump were provided by more than
one packages. Those alternate versions have long gone away.
Please remove the alternatives setup from acpica-unix, to reduce
overall complexity.
Thanks,
Chris
Hi again,
> * Christoph Franzen [210201 15:51]:
> > So, please, leave the package in Debian, and tell me if you need any
> > help to accomplish this.
>
> Do you think you could take upon maintaining this package? I think
> that would be the best course of action.
Note that the dac960 has been
Source: cpqarrayd
Version: 2.3.6
Severity: serious
Linux upstream has removed the "cciss" driver in 4.14-rc1. cpqarrayd
needs the cciss driver to function.
I imagine we shouldn't ship software that did not work with buster's
kernel in bullseye.
Chris
Hello Ron,
* Ron Murray [210407 20:05]:
> I'm not going to supply a patch because I feel that this should be
> the decision of the maintainer.
There is no maintainer.
> PS FFS, this bug is *18* *years* *old*.
Are you actively using autoproject? Upstream appears to have
vanished a long
* Simon Josefsson [210415 19:06]:
> Hi! Upstream is not maintained either -- at least the download URL in
> netkit-telnet's debian/copyright file does not work. How about dropping
> netkit-telnet from Debian?
In #982253 I've expressed that I for one would find that to be a
good idea. But quite
Source: varmon
Version: 1.2.1-2
Dear Maintainer,
your package depends on makedev, which itself is long obsolete.
Please replace this dependency.
Thanks,
Chris
Package: cdbackup
Version: 0.7.1-1+b1
Severity: important
Dear cdbackup Maintainers,
your package depends on wodim and genisoimage, both built from
cdrkit sources. cdrkit does not have a path forward, please switch
away from it rather soon. I'm told xorriso and libburnia are
alternatives and are
Source: golang-code.gitea-git
Version: 0.0~git20190411.63b74d4+ds-1
Severity: serious
Upstream (Gitea) appears to have moved on to another solution, so
this is dead code (upstream repo is marked as archived).
Lets not have it in bullseye, especially as nothing else depends on
it, and its
Control: severity -1 serious
Hi Christoph,
* Christoph Franzen [210820 12:09]:
> > Note that the dac960 has been removed from Linux 4.20-rc1. myrb/myrs
> > are given as replacements, but someone should check varmon works
> > with those drivers.
>
> I WILL test the new driver, when I've enough
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: golang-github-facebookgo-gr...@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:golang-github-facebookgo-grace
Dear ftpmasters,
please remove golang-github-facebookgo-grace. It was
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: golang-github-cupcake-...@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:golang-github-cupcake-rdb
Dear ftpmasters,
please remove golang-github-cupcake-rdb. It was introduced for
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: golang-gopkg-alexcesaro-quotedprintable...@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:golang-gopkg-alexcesaro-quotedprintable.v3
Dear ftpmasters,
please remove
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: golang-github-unknwon-pagina...@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:golang-github-unknwon-paginater
Dear ftpmasters,
please remove golang-github-unknwon-paginater. It was
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: golang-github-siddontang-...@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:golang-github-siddontang-rdb
Dear ftpmasters,
please remove golang-github-siddontang-rdb. It was introduced
Source: sanitizer
Version: 1.76-5.1
Severity: important
Hi,
sanitizer appears to be a program to introspect and modify incoming
email. It also has gone at least 15 years without an upstream
release. Personally I find it unlikely that these two facts go well
together, and would suspect nobody is
Hi Håkan,
* Håkan T Johansson [220730 23:43]:
> I have now tried with the mdadm 4.2~rc2-2 installed in both the chroot
> environment (tried only that first), and also the host system.
> Unfortunately, the host / fs is still affected when running
> 'update-initramfs -u', when /dev is not mounted.
Control: reassign -1 src:linux
Dear Håkan,
thanks for reporting back and testing!
* Håkan T Johansson [220801 19:31]:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2022, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
>
> > I can't see a difference that should matter from userspace.
> >
> > I have stared
Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -2 ftp.debian.org
Control: retitle -2 RM: vzquota -- RoQA; orphaned, missing kernel support
Control: affects -2 src:vzquota
Control: severity -2 normal
Dear ftpmasters,
please remove vzquota. It is orphaned for a long time, and requires
kernel patches that
Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -2 ftp.debian.org
Control: retitle -2 RM: vzctl -- RoQA; orphaned, missing kernel support
Control: affects -2 src:vzctl
Control: severity -2 normal
Dear ftpmasters,
please remove vzctl. It is orphaned for a long time, and requires
kernel patches that have
Source: dnprogs
A while ago, it was suggested to remove the decnet kernel support,
here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220731190646.97039-1-step...@networkplumber.org/
No negative feedback was received, so maybe this will happen. When
it happens, dnprogs will be unusable in (stock) Debian.
Source: sendmail
Dear Maintainer,
I've noticed your package Build-Depends on bsdmainutils, which is a
transitional package since bullseye. Please switch to one of the
packages replacing bsdmainutils instead.
Maybe bsdextrautils, if the program you are after is "ul".
Thanks,
Chris
Source: cakephp
Version: 2.10.24-2
The 2.10 branch is unmaintained upstream. As there are currently no
direct users in Debian and no maintainer for this library/framework,
it would seem unwise shipping it in the next stable release.
When a real maintainer shows up and updates the package, please
Control: severity -1 grave
Control: found -1 airport-utils/2-8
> All of the aiport-utils tools don't seem to be working anymore. They start
> up and immediately stop without any error. Trying to run the tools with
>
>java -jar sometool.jar
>
> gives the same result. Disk rattling, program
* Adrian Bunk :
> Source: libcommoncpp2
[..]
> src:ucommon is the successor of libcommoncpp2, and the only
> remaining build dependency on libcommoncpp2-dev in
> vdr-plugin-fritzbox is stale.
It appears all r-(build-)deps are gone. Should src:libcommoncpp2
also go away from unstable?
Chris
Source: scalc
Version: 0.2.4-6
Severity: serious
It appears src:scalc only builds a library package, and nothing in
Debian uses it. If people see value in keeping it in bookworm,
please speak up.
I'll note that there is a new, completely unrelated project using
the "scalc" name, so it might be a
Source: json11
Version: 1.0.0-3+b1
Severity: important
json11 is dead upstream, and has known encoding bugs. It currently has
no real users in Debian (except as a dependency of yet another library).
It would be good to remove it from (at least) testing before actual
users show up.
Chris
Source: golang-github-siddontang-go-snappy
Version: 0.0~git20140704.0.d8f7bb8-6.1
Severity: serious
This package was introduced for gitea, and has been orphaned once gitea
was removed. It has seen no updates since. Lets keep these libraries out
of testing.
Chris
Package: x-loader
Version: 1.5.1+git20110715+fca7cd2-3
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
Justification: fails to build from source
Dear QA Group,
the package x-loader was recently gifted to you, but it FTBFS:
gcc -g -Os -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffixed-r8 -msoft-float -Werror
Source: golang-github-unknwon-i18n
Version: 0.0~git20170218.0.8372b90-1
Severity: serious
This package was introduced as a library used by gitea, but has not seen
updates in 5 years and gitea itself is also long gone. Upstream also has
given up on it many years ago.
Lets keep these bits out of
Source: libbase58
Version: 0.1.4-5
Severity: serious
libbase58 appears to be a leaf library package - nothing else in Debian
debends on it. Apparently it was introduced for some other
bitcoin-related libraries, which are gone again.
I would suggest we waste no resources on this for bookworm.
Source: mercurial-buildpackage
Version: 0.10.1+nmu2
Severity: important
It would appear mercurial-buildpackage is not useful anymore:
hg.debian.org has long been shut down, and from popcon it would seem
there are few/no users left.
Does this package still have value for bookworm?
Chris
Control: tags -1 = confirmed
Control: severity serious
* Richard Lewis :
[..]
> Just recently I installed "unstable" from scratch on a Dell
> XPS 13 9343. And now ifscheme doesn't work anymore.
[..]
> But when I try to select a network and bring up the interface, I get
> the error "unknown
Control: severity -1 serious
Last remaining package in unstable dropped its (build-)depends,
raising severity so json11 will go away from testing.
* Helge Kreutzmann :
> for what is worth:
> helge@samd:/tmp$ debget nghttp2
> Get:1 http://172.16.18.51:/ftp.de.debian.org/debian bullseye/main
> amd64 nghttp2 all 1.43.0-1 [14.4 kB]
> Fetched 14.4 kB in 0s (117 kB/s)
For anyone reading along: this "success" is, because nghttp2
switched to
Package: sendmail-bin
Severity: wishlist
Version: 8.15.2-22
User: pkg-systemd-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: systemd-units
Dear sendmail Maintainers and QA Uploaders,
sendmail-bin today ships an /etc/init.d/sendmail script, of
considerable size. It would be great if it could also
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: pam-shi...@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:pam-shield
Dear ftpmasters,
please remove pam-shield, which is orphaned since 2017, having seen its
last maintainer upload in
Control: found -1 scanbd/1.5.1-6+b1
Control: block -1 by 1058752
Hi Andreas,
I'm unsure what to do here. This problem is triggered by a behaviour
change in coreutils.
On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 03:17:18PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: dhis-mx-sendmail-eng...@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:dhis-mx-sendmail-engine
Dear ftpmasters,
please remove dhis-mx-sendmail-engine, which blocks removal of
Source: libnss-db
Version: 2.2.3pre1-8
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream
libnss-db is the so-called "Berkeley DB NSS". It last saw upstream
changes in 2001, and obviously depends on Berkeley DB 5.3. We want to
get rid of Berkeley DB, and now is as good a time as any other to stop
shipping
Source: guessnet
Severity: important
Hi,
your package build-depends on libiw-dev, which is built from
wireless-tools 30~pre9, from 2009. Please replace it with an actually
maintained library for wireless network interfaces.
Thanks,
Chris
Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tags -1 = wontfix
* Klaus Ethgen [231127 19:13]:
> Package: mingetty
> Version: 1.08-5
> Severity: grave
>
> After the recent update, init runns cracy trying to run mingetty.
> Nov 27 20:00:01 ikki init: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty"
[..]
> merged-usr: no
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: cpufr...@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:cpufreqd
Dear ftpmasters,
please remove cpufreqd. It is orphaned in Debian, had its last
maintainer upload over 10 years ago,
Package: tracker.debian.org
Severity: serious
Dear tracker.d.o owners,
as you probably have already noticed, the migration data for a lot of
packages appears stuck in the past, probably on or before 2023-11-14.
As an example, https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/multipath-tools shows "Too
young, only
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: p...@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:pvm
Dear ftpmasters,
please remove pvm. It is orphaned in Debian, effectively has seen no
real maintenance since 2016. Upstream also
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: dhis-cli...@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:dhis-client
Dear ftpmasters,
please remove dhis-client, which is the client component of "DHIS",
supposedly a dynamic DNS
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: dhis-ser...@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:dhis-server
Dear ftpmasters,
please remove dhis-server, which is the server component of "DHIS",
supposedly a dynamic DNS
On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 07:16:34PM -0300, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote:
> Would be possible reintroduce libnss-db to testing?
>
> I'm asking because I'm maintainer of the pglistener package and I know there
> aren't plans to update the sofwtare with another database solution.
Well what's
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