Your message dated Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:37:30 +0100
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and subject line Re: removal seems to be good
has caused the Debian Bug report #564806,
regarding RM: star -- RoM; unmaintained, low popcon, alternatives exist
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Source: star
Version: 1.5final-2
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS, somewhat low popcon, alternatives are Essential: yes
User: [email protected]
Usertags: proposed-removal
star seems like a possible candidate for removal from Debian:
* somewhat low, and declining popcon (73 votes)
* two RC FTBFS bugs in the build system
* alternatives exist (GNU tar is Essential: yes)
* no rdepends; no reverse-recommends without alternatives
* no maintainer upload since 2008-07-01
Nothing seems to depend on star. dvbackup and flexbackup recommend it, but
only among alternatives (dvbackup prefers star, flexbackup prefers afio).
One of the advantages stated in the Description is that it's "the only tar
implementation under Linux capable of archiving Access Control Lists". This
no longer seems to be true, now that we have bsdtar (I was surprised to find
that GNU tar doesn't do ACLs yet, though).
If you want to keep this package around in Debian, please just close this bug,
and do an upload to fix the issues in it.
If you don't think it's worth keeping, please send the following commands
to [email protected], replacing nnnnnn with this bug's number:
severity nnnnnn normal
reassign nnnnnn ftp.debian.org
retitle nnnnnn RM: star -- RoM; <reasons>
thanks
For more information, see
http://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals
http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt
Regards,
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On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 21:15 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> severity 564806 normal
> reassign 564806 ftp.debian.org
> retitle 564806 RM: star -- RoM; unmaintained, low popcon, alternatives exist
No, contrary to what original report says there are no viable
alternatives, as long as those alternatives will not be able to
correctly extract existing backup archives created with star.
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