reassign 718309 ftp.debian.org
retitle 718309 RM: python-irclib: Obsolete
severity 718309 normal
thanks
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 03:40:03PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Oxan van Leeuwen
> <o...@oxanvanleeuwen.nl> wrote:
> > This package is an old version of the python-irc package.
>
> Indeed, this seems to be the case. However, I don't think it was
> intentional. Upstream was renamed from irclib to irc, and I think
> it's likely that it was not noticed by the maintainer of python-irc
> that python-irclib was actually the old version of the same package.
>
> > Given that the other package is actively maintained and this package hasn't
> > received a single maintainer upload since 2008, I suggest this package is
> > dropped from Debian once all reverse depends are updated to use python-irc.
>
> Right. For this to happen, we need to file bugs against each of the
> packages that depend on python-irclib:
>
> jabber-irc: jabber-irc
> python-cobe: python-cobe
> xpilot-ng: xpilot-ng-common
>
> All these packages require bugs in order to get fixed and only then
> can python-irclib get removed.
The reverse dependencies have been fixed or removed. Reassigning to
ftp.debian.org for removal.
Cheers,
Moritz
