Your message dated Thu, 22 Oct 2020 19:46:46 +0000
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and subject line Bug#907751: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #907751,
regarding RM: vmdebootstrap -- ROM; upstream discontinued, obsolete, better
options exist
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Severity: normal
I wrote vmdebootstrap in 2011, originally. It has been maintained by
others since then, upstream and in Debian. I am now again the upstream
and Debian maintainer since last year.
As upstream, I am ashamed of having written such a lousy program. It
has a bad architecture that makes the software inflexible, difficult
to modify, hard to test, and it is not suitable for large number of
use cases. I admit a number of people have managed to make use of it.
There are better options now: I wrote vmdb2, and there is debos. FAI
is probably also better than vmdebootstrap.
As upstream, I want vmdebootstrap gone. This means it should be
removed from Debian as well. I don't want someone else to adopt it:
it's that bad. It is my birthday and my birthday wish to be rid of
this blight. (Whenever ftpmaster has time for it is fine: I just want
to make the request today.)
I've announced my intention to ask vmdebootstrap to be removed on
debian-cloud, in NEWS.Debian in the package, on debian-devel-announce,
and in my blog, at various points this year, so I feel I've given
ample warning. unstable still has two reverse dependencies: lava and
live-wrapper.
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We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
vmdebootstrap | 1.11-2 | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386,
mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
------------------- Reason -------------------
ROM; upstream discontinued, obsolete, better options exist
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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/907751
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Joerg Jaspert (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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