On 12/13/22 10:57, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote:
Am 13.12.2022 10:15 schrieb Timo Röhling:
One remaining problem is the unmaintained nose package
[...]
done some work patching up nose
This question is just for my learning: Why is nose patched? Upstream
nose is unmaintained for years.
I understand that you cannot drop nose from Debian in the current
situation of a freeze in one months and so many dependencies.
But isn't there a Debian process/workflow to "warn" package maintainers
about an upcoming package drop of one of there dependend packages to put
some pressure into it? Looking into the list of over 200 packages I see
this also as a chance to clean out some other unmaintained (and maybe
not so important) packages from the Debian repo.
It's unfortunately sometimes a bit harder than what one may think.
Removing Nose from (build-)depends in some cases is hard, and IMO we
started this process a way too late. Hopefully, Trixie will be
nose-free! In the mean time, it is unfortunately my opinion that it's
too late for Bookworm and that we must keep Nose for one more release.
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
