Your message dated Mon, 09 May 2016 17:58:23 +0000
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and subject line Bug#819026: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #819026,
regarding RM: fonts-mgopen -- ROM; obsolete, abandoned upstream
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Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
The MgOpen fonts were released by Magenta, a Greek company, back in
2005. At the time finding freely-licensed fonts covering Greek glyphs
was hard (DejaVu added the Greek basic alphabet in 2006), so I uploaded
this package in Debian at the time and moved it under the Debian Fonts
Task Force after a few years, where it has been comaintained since.
In the meantime, the freely-licensed font ecosystem has bloomed and
nowadays there are multiple different choices for commodity uses of
Greek glyphs (DejaVu, Liberation, Droid, Robot/Noto, CrOS etc.).
MgOpen suffers from several long-standing issues (such as the lack of
hinting, #540206), some of which make it completely unsuitable for
today's use (such as the lack of the Euro sign).
The font has only seen a couple of releases, the last one being more
than a decade ago; it has been seemingly abandoned by its upstream. It
was wasn't that good to begin with, so noone has stepped up to maintain
it and enhance it and I'm pretty sure noone will given the breadth of
choices nowadays.
Please remove it from the archive: it's a small maintenance burden but
at this point it does more harm than good by confusing potential users.
Thanks,
Faidon
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We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
fonts-mgopen | 1.1-9 | source, all
------------------- Reason -------------------
ROM; obsolete, abandoned upstream
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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/819026
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