Dear Andreas, You are correct, I have not been able to further develop s51dude nor I have the required hardware to test changes to the software. I think that removing it from debian unstable is the correct thing to do.
Thanks, Lucas "Oh no, not again." - A bowl of petunias on its way to certain death. On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > Source: s51dude > Version: 0.3.1-1.1 > Severity: serious > Justification: grab attention of maintainer > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Lucas Chiesa <[email protected]>, > Package Salvaging Team <[email protected]> > > Dear Lucas, > > I suggest removing s51dude from Debian for the following reasons: > > * It is not maintained upstream any more (Homepage vanished) > * It is blocking removal of the old libusb (see bug #810456) > * There might be replacements for this package like > mcu8051ide - Graphical Integrated Development Environment for 8051 > sdcc - C compiler for the Intel MCS51 family > sdcc-ucsim - Simulator für SDCC-Mikrocontroller > * There are very few votes in popcon > > https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=s51dude&show_installed=on&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 > * There seems to be no active maintainer > > This bug serves as a pre-removal warning. After one month, the bug will be > reassigned to ftp.debian.org to actually request removal of the package. > > In case the package should be kept in unstable, please make sure you > can provide effective help to port this package to latest libusb. > > In case the package should be removed from unstable, you may reassign this > bug report: > > Control: severity -1 normal > Control: retitle -1 RM: s51dude -- RoM; rc-buggy > Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org > Control: affects -1 + src:s51dude > > Alternatively, you may wait a month and have it reassigned. > > In case you disagree with the above, please add a wontfix tag to this bug. > > Control: tags -1 + wontfix > > This package was highlighted in the Bug of the Day[3] initiative, which > aims to introduce newcomers to manageable tasks and guide them through > the workflow to solve them. The focus of this initiative is on migrating > packages to Salsa, as it's a great way to help newcomers become familiar > with a consistent Git-based workflow. > > > Kind regards > Andreas. > > [1] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 13.0 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'buildd-unstable'), (50, 'unstable'), > (5, 'experimental'), (1, 'buildd-experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) > Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=de_DE:de > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled >
