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On Fri, October 27, 2006 22:08, Neil Williams wrote:
> Thijs Kinkhorst wrote on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:27:47 +0200
The maintainer has just uploaded a packaged version of latest 2.1.7,
>
> There appears to be no sign of this upload and the current package
> still FTBFS. See bugs #380713, #284770 and #376381 (merged).
The package has been rejected from NEW, there was a problem with the
library packaging. I hope the maintainer will fix that soon and
upload a new revision.
> dbmail probably does need to be removed.
I don't see any advantage in that - it's currently not in testing,
and keeping it in sid doesn't do much harm. There's plans to revive
it, so what would we gain with removal?
1. Completion of the automake -> automake1.4 transition.
2. Remove one block of the debconf-2.0 transition.
3. Removal of a package that is completely broken.
It is misleading to leave so many tags "pending" when there has been no
sign of a fix since the rejection.
*Please* remove dbmail:
- - Last upload in Nov 2004
- - 2 Grave functionality bugs, over a year old
- - 6 Serious policy violations, most over a year old, one over 2yr.
- - Has never been part of a stable release
- - Only 5 respectively 1 popcon user
- - Two open security problems 290833 and 303991
- - blocking the automake transition
- - blocking the debconf-2.0 transition
- - unsatisfiable Depends: libmysqlclient10
- - unsatisfiable Depends: libpq3 (>= 7.4)
- - incomplete debian/copyright
It's not just the current 1.2.11-1, the oldest RC bug applies to 1.2.8b
http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=unstable&package=dbmail
IMHO, leaving dbmail in Debian makes a mockery of Debian QA. It's
broken, been broken for two years, has security problems, simply won't
build - I can see absolutely no reason to retain it.
Fixing the RC bugs isn't sufficient - the package needs maintenance and
in the absence of an acceptable new release or an active Debian
maintainer, the only option that I can see is removal.
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Neil Williams
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