retitle 646582 RM: qpopper -- RoQA; Orphaned; RC-buggy reassign 646582 ftp.debian.org severity 646582 normal thanks
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:48:02PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: >Package: qpopper >Version: 4.0.9.dfsg-1.2 >Severity: serious >Justification: unmaintained, FTBFS, multiple RC bugs, alternatives exist >User: debian...@lists.debian.org >Usertags: proposed-removal > >[X-Debbugs-Cc to the "new" maintainer in experimental, who uploaded one >alpha version in 2007.] > >qpopper seems like a possible candidate for removal from Debian: > >* RC-buggy (fails to build from source with newer OpenSSL, easy patch > in Ubuntu; qpopper-drac doesn't work with modern pam; sid maintainer's > email address is broken) >* not in wheezy, no new upstream version since before lenny >* alternatives exist (Dovecot is a perfectly good POP3 server, and also does > IMAP) >* "unsupported" upstream, no release since 2008 >* requires recompilation for configuration changes (mbox vs. maildir) All of these reasons still look true, so I believe it's time to remove this from the archive. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship Specialty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
