Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org Control: retitle -1 ROM: Please remove package mgltools-pmv
As the discussion below and the bug log shows: mgltools-pmv does not start and nobody seems to have a clue to make it work. Kind regards, Andreas. On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 09:21:33PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi again - again, > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 10:46:05AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hi again, > > > > On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 02:24:18PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > > * RC-buggy (#855494 :-() > > > > This should have been addressed with that one upload of mine that > > > > apparently > > > > had been lost before when the bug was addressed by upstream about two > > > > years > > > > ago. > > > > > > But the program does not yet start. :-( > > > > Since a mgltools part now received a bug report (#883845) which I feel > > responsible to some extend since I once cared for the removal of the > > non-free image, > > I fixed this bug in mgltools-vision and when doing so I realisied that > it is not my fault that the image popped up in the source tarball again. > Its just the non-default way to create the upstream source (and thus my > point that its a bad idea how this source is obtained is proven by > another issue). > > > I hereby want to request a clear commitment of the > > persons mentioned in the Uploaders field whether bug #855494 will be > > fixed **soon** (= until 24.12.) to know whether it is worth spending > > some effort into it, > > I'm a bit sad that my expectation that there was no commitment shown for > the issue which keeps my motivation high to ask for removal of the > package. > > In any case I took over the migration from SVN to Git since I now > migrated *all* packaging stuff in SVN (also prospective packages) and so > even may be removal candidates packaging might serve some purpose in > case somebody will take over later again. > > When doing the migration I realised that there was packaging code for > > > mgltools-cmolkit (1.5.7-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium > > * New upstream version (Closes: #767144,#783547, > lp:#821299,lp:1386091,lp:#1386163,lp:#1492762) > > -- Steffen Moeller <moel...@debian.org> Fri, 08 Jul 2016 17:54:14 +0200 > > > in SVN and all other mgltools-* packages are featuring upstream version > 1.5.7 but cmolkit is remaining at 1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424 which is most > probably unwanted. If the get-orig-source method would not have failed > I would have injected the upgraded source but it did not worked :-((( > > > or whether it is better to ask for removal since > > we have no manpower to solve RC bugs. > > I'll wait with the request for removal until after our sprint. > > One more word to the "ftpmasters don't like a tarball of tarballs" [1] > workaround: There should be other ways to deal with this "don't like" > than putting 20 times multiple work than necessary to switch to new > versions. It took me an additional day in the SVN to Git migration. > Thus I removed myself from Uploaders which means I'll now consequently > leave the additional work to the remaining Uploaders who seem to prefer > this kind of workflow. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2017/12/msg00010.html > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > > -- http://fam-tille.de