package: ftp.debian.org Dear FTP masters, please remove src:root-system and its binaries from the archive. ROOT is a huge beast to maintain, and it's currently not maintained: * we have a quite ancient release * it's FTBFS with newer libraries (as it's not keeping up with transition, and it's entangled in several of them) * at the moment it has 3 RC bugs, oldest one being more than one year old about it FTBFSing with GCC-5
We believe the best way forward is to just remove it from the archive at this point, yesterday I uploaded the rdeps dropping the dependencies on root-system's binaries. For future reference, here are some pointers to discussions about removing it: https://bugs.debian.org/822085 https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2016/05/msg00134.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2016/05/msg00135.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2016/05/msg00137.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2016/06/msg00010.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2016/06/msg00013.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2016/06/msg00014.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2016/06/msg00018.html https://groups.cern.ch/group/roottalk/Lists/Archive/Flat.aspx?RootFolder=%2Fgroup%2Froottalk%2FLists%2FArchive%2FROOT%20packages%20in%20Debian%20need%20a%20maintainer&FolderCTID=0x01200200A201AF59FD011C4E9284C43BF0CDA2A4 Thanks in advance, Mattia (with my d-science hat on) -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
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