On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 01:09:43PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: Santiago Vila > > I know, but packages in trixie still must build in trixie, so closing > > this bug does not help anybody and reduces the visibility of a bug > > that we should still fix to comply with DFSG. Please reconsider. > > When a package gets removed, all bugs get closed in a +rm version.
Yes, I know ftpmasters usually do that, but it could be argued that doing that is wrong when the bug is a FTBFS bug in stable, because we always want to build stable from source regardless of upstream support. > This is just doing that. Version-tracking will still show the bug as > open in trixie. > > The package was removed because it's dead upstream. I do not plan to > spend any more time on it, sorry. If it's unsupported in trixie, why do we still include it in trixie? Would not be better to reassign the bug to ftp.debian.org so that it's removed in the next point release? Thanks.
