Your message dated Mon, 09 Jun 2025 09:19:58 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#965159: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #965159, regarding RM: flare -- RoQA; outdated/unused/confusing metapackages to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: flare Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: The source package flare is used to build two packages: flare and flare-data. Both of them are transition packages, providing a seamless upgrade path to the current packages flare-engine and flare-game. As even Jessie (oldoldstable) already only provided these packages for transition to the new ones, I think this source package is no longer useful. The issue there is by keeping it is that it is a source of confusion: I have seen Debian users that due to the low version number of this transition package thought that the current version of the engine and game were not packaged into Debian, thinking it was no longer maintained. To avoid further confusion, I suggest the removal of the flare source package, and the two binary packages built from it. From a quick check on a Debian Sid, it does not seem that there is any package currently depending on these ones. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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--- Begin Message ---We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following package(s) have been removed from unstable: flare | 0.19-1.1 | source, all flare-data | 0.19-1.1 | all ------------------- Reason ------------------- RoQA; outdated/unused/confusing metapackages ---------------------------------------------- Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag database and may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/965159 This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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