Control: severity -1 normal Control: retitle -1 RM: pfm -- RoQA; Orphaned upstream, unmaintained in Debian, non-functional Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:pfm Thanks
Hi, I'm hereby requesting removal for QA reasons - see below. Kind regards, Andreas. Am Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 12:43:14PM +0100 schrieb Christoph Berg: > Re: Andreas Tille > > As far as I can see also the suggested successor for pfm has stopped > > development more than 10 years ago. Also we have pgamdin4 which is > > a modern and officially maintained interface. > > Iirc I tried pfm last year and couldn't get it to do anything at all. > Please remove it. > > > Then I've checked and realised that the latter is not true and never > > was. Before I rethink what might be the best to do with pfm I would > > like to know your (or the postgresql teams) opinion about pgadmin4 or > > other alternatives. I know we have phppgadmin but some (real) local > > management interface would be nice to have. > > I stopped the effort to package pgadmin4 when upstream unilaterally > started to publish their own (incompatible) packages without even > telling me about it, while they knew I was working on the packages. > This is known as "the pgadmin4 incident". > > phppgadmin hasn't been updated for a year or two, but I think it still > works. By the way, pgadmin4 is also a web application, it just comes > with a desktop version that has the server and the client bundled in > one program. > > And then there is omnidb, but it's also dead (just not horribly broken > yet). But please do remove pfm, it isn't an alternative to any of > these. > > Christoph > -- https://fam-tille.de
