Your message dated Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:47:33 +0000
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and subject line Bug#901937: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #901937,
regarding RM: gnome-ppp -- unmaintained, dead upstream, depends on wvdial
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wvstreams is rc-buggy due to its libssl1.0.2 requirement, QA maintained.
I asked about its status on [email protected] [0] and later on
[email protected] [1].
wvstreams is dead upstream, last github commit is from 2011.
Its only reverse dependency is wvdial (Debian maintainer on Cc:).
wvdial is dead upstream (homepage not reachable), last upload in 2012.
Its only reverse dependency is gnome-ppp.
gnome-ppp is dead upstream, not part of the gnome project (explained in
[2]). Last upload moved the package to QA in 2017 and the upload before
that was in 2012. Alexey Loginov asked to replace it with a fork in
#813804 and he has been added Cc.
It looks to me that gnome-ppp could be removed without hesitation.
People interested in wvdial should also show interest in wvstreams,
too.
Alternatives as suggested in [2]:
|Alternatives to wvdial include pppconfig (orphaned) or configuring
|pppd by writing configuration files directly (hardly user-friendly,
|but probably enough for retrocomputing enthusiasts).
and [3] added:
|If someone is really enthusiastic, they might want to write a
|plugin for MM supporting their favourite ZyXEL or whatever.
|Shouldn't be hard and would automatically integrate into the
|wonderful world of NM. Needs C and glib knowledge.
Based on popcon the reason for wvstreams is wvdial.
With that background I am asking for the removal of wvstreams and its
reverse dependencies. I could also clone this bug as an O: bug against
each package and if nobody adopts the package (especially wvstreams)
within one Month I would reassign it back here.
[0]
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[email protected]
[1]
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[email protected]
[2]
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[email protected]
[3] https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20180605222635.GA29088@fama
Sebastian
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We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
gnome-ppp | 0.3.23-2 | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips,
mips64el, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
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unmaintained, dead upstream, depends on wvdial
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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
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Ansgar Burchardt (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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