Your message dated Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:12:42 +0000
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and subject line Bug#752560: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #752560,
regarding RM: whatsnewfm -- ROM; package has become completely useless
to be marked as done.
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Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
whatsnewfm is a filter for the daily newsletter from Freecode.com
(once Freshmeat.net), a repository for free and open source software.
The whatsnewfm project started in 08/2000 and since 04/2004 it has
been an official Debian package. On 2014-06-18 Freecode.com stopped
accepting new software to their repository and switched to a static
website. This also made then stop sending their newsletter, as there
are no more news to tell.
Without a daily newsletter to parse, whatsnewfm has become completely
useless. As the maintainer of the package, I'd like to request the
removal of the package from Debian.
As the package is now useless not only in unstable, but also in
testing, stable (and even oldstable): Should the removal also be
carried out in these distributions? If yes, how would this be done?
I was notified of the shutdown via bug #752288 which has been filed
against whatsnewfm. Should that bug somehow be merged with this on or
is it OK to have this separate bug against ftp.debian.org?
Regards
Christian
References:
* http://freecode.com/about
Freecode's statement about stopping to add new software to their site
* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=752288
The original bug report against whatsnewfm that made me aware of the
change.
* http://www.cgarbs.de/whatsnewfm.en.html
This official whatsnewfm project page stating 'whatsnewfm is now
useless' (no surprise there, updated by me some minutes ago :-)
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....Christian.Garbs.....................................http://www.cgarbs.de
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We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
whatsnewfm | 0.7.2-1 | source, all
------------------- Reason -------------------
ROM; package has become completely useless
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Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it). Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next
dinstall run at the earliest.
Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is
really needed, please contact them if this should be the case.
We try to close bugs which have been reported against this package
automatically. But please check all old bugs, if they were closed
correctly or should have been re-assigned to another package.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected].
The full log for this bug can be viewed at https://bugs.debian.org/752560
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