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has caused the Debian Bug report #836085,
regarding RM: gnupg-doc -- ROM; package is outdated, dead upstream and actively
confusing [was: Re: [pkg-gnupg-maint] gnupg-doc in debian?]
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Subject: RM: gnupg-doc -- ROM; package is outdated, dead upstream, and actively
confusing
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
On Tue 2015-04-14 03:46:36 -0400, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 03:09, [email protected] said:
>
>> gnupg-doc seems unlikely to get much love from upstream, and i don't
>
> Right. man pages and their info files (man pages are build from
> texinfo) are updated with the release but everything else should be
> available at https://gnupg.org. There is anyway too much outdated
> information floating around.
We're nearly two years into this discussion, the information in
gnupg-doc is old and outdated, and upstream is dead. As the GnuPG
transition continues, the material in the gnupg-doc package is actively
confusing.
gnupg-doc is not in stable or testing, and hasn't been updated since
2009 (upstream version 2003.04.06)
Don, I know i'm technically not the maintainer of gnupg-doc itself, but
i'm on the pkg-gnupg team, which is directly affected by the confusion
is generated by this package, and we've had some discussions over the
past two years about how to handle the maintenance. So i hope you don't
mind my taking the liberty of filing this RM bug report.
See also https://bugs.debian.org/724520 (build failures) and
https://bugs.debian.org/835548 (users looking for extra documentation)
for examples of other problems in this package.
If an upstream copy of the documentation currently found in gnupg-doc
ever becomes maintained again, we can always bring it back into debian,
but for now i think dropping the package is the sane thing to do for our
users.
Regards,
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We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
gnupg-doc | 2003.04.06+dak1-1 | source, all
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ROM; package is outdated, dead upstream and actively confusing [was: Re:
[pkg-gnupg-maint] gnupg-doc in debian?]
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