On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 22:12:29 +0200 Markus Koschany <[email protected]> wrote: > reassign 870987 ftp.debian.org > retitle 870987 RM: azureus -- RoQA; missed both jessie and stretch > thanks > > Am 08.08.2017 um 20:08 schrieb Emmanuel Bourg: > > On 08/08/2017 06:44 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > > > >> 1.5 years later this hasn't changed, shall we now drop it? > > > > Actually there has been a change since upstream has cleared the license > > issues we raised. I still intend to update the package, but I don't mind > > if it has to go through the NEW queue. > > > > Hi, > > I completely understand the sentiment that we want to fix bugs instead > of going the easy way and remove packages. However Azureus has already > missed two stable releases and we already had this discussion 1.5 years > ago. At some point we should accept that the package is in a really bad > shape and that it should not even be shipped in unstable because it is > basically unusable. > > Mykola Nikishov pointed to the new fork BiglyBT and this one seems to be > more suited for Debian anyway because they removed all those advertising > crap. > > Since you are fine with going to NEW again and I would support anybody > else who is really interested in maintaining this package, I think the > removal of azureus makes sense now. Hence I would like to ask the FTP > team to remove azureus from Debian due to the outstanding issues > mentioned in its RC bug reports.
I would like to give Emmanuel time to respond to this. I've tagged the bug moreinfo to hold on on processing it for the moment. If Emmanuel agrees to the removal or we don't hear back in two weeks, then go ahead and remove the moreinfo tag and I'll process the removal then. Scott K
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