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and subject line Bug#1071997: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #1071997,
regarding RM: troffcvt -- ROM; unmaintained upstream; broken with groff 1.23.0
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Usertags: remove
The troffcvt package, which I've maintained since 2001, is broken as of
groff 1.23.0 (see https://bugs.debian.org/1059802). This is because it
relies on groff's macros, but it uses its own parser for the underlying
*roff language, and that parser doesn't implement some features added to
groff in 2001 that groff's macros now rely on more fundamentally than
they used to.
I've spent some time trying to fix this, and while I've made some
progress it would take quite a bit more time to finish. I've reached
the conclusion that it probably isn't worth spending that time. There
hasn't been an upstream release of troffcvt since 1997;
https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=troffcvt shows negligible use;
and nothing depends or build-depends on it. Any users are likely better
off using groff's own facilities for formatting to HTML or plain text,
or perhaps using something like pandoc.
Please remove troffcvt from unstable.
Thanks,
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Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]]
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We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
troffcvt | 1.04+repack1-1 | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386,
mips64el, ppc64el, s390x
troffcvt | 1.04+repack1-1+b1 | riscv64
------------------- Reason -------------------
ROM; unmaintained upstream; broken with groff 1.23.0
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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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