Hi.
I've compiled a list of orphaned packages that were not part of etch
(and, unless otherwise noted, were not part of sarge).
I think it would be a good idea to remove some of them (at least from
testing) before lenny's release. Including a package in a stable release
gives it much more weight and it usually survives longer in the archive
even if it only bitrots. So removing unneccessary packages now would be
a good idea IMHO.
popcon stats are given in the order inst/vote/old/recent/nofiles, for
packaes with multiple binary packages I list only the most used one
(adding the numbers usually makes no sense because of the inner
dependencies).
And now the list and my proposal for handling each package:
cryopid: popcon 233/23/203/7/0, RC bug, no rdepends
-> keep in unstable
hg-buildpackage: popcon 82/9/63/10/0, no rdepends
-> keep in unstable
ikvm: popcon 112/25/38/47/2, new upstream, rdepends: monodevelop-java
-> prod monodevelop-java maintainer, keep in lenny
karchiver: popcon 288/88/167/33/0, upstream dead, no rdepends
-> keep in unstable
krecordmydesktop: popcon 159/32/75/52/0, new upstream, no rdepends
-> keep in unstable
kxgenerator: popcon 247/63/155/29/0, upstream dead, no rdepends
-> keep in unstable
lhapdf: popcon 148/8/135/5/0, new upstream, no rdepends (library)
-> remove
libipod: popcon 111/6/94/11/0, no rdepends (library)
-> remove
libsvg: popcon 602/8/35/4/555, no rdepends (library)
-> remove
meep: popcon 24/4/20/0/0, new upstream, no rdepends
-> remove
metastore: popcon 114/37/35/42/0, no rdepends
-> keep in lenny
oo2c: popcon 12/4/7/1/0, no rdepends, was part of oldstable
-> remove
pgpool2: popcon 9/7/1/1/0, new upstream, no rdepends
-> remove
qtparted: popcon 610/64/304/241/1, RC bug, no rdepends
-> keep in unstable
randim: popcon 37/8/29/0/0, no rdepends
-> remove
shunit2: popcon 27/0/0/0/27, new upstream, no rdepends
-> remove
sparkline-php: popcon 4/2/2/0/0, new upstream, no rdepends
-> remove
uspp: popcon 13/0/0/0/13, no rdepends (python library)
-> remove
xwatchwin: 63/8/54/1/0, upstream dead, no rdepends
-> remove
motv: popcon 89/19/44/25/1, contrib, has problems with autobuilds due to
non-free build-dep, no rdepends, was part of oldstable
-> remove
openmotif: popcon 782/90/347/32/313, looong orphaned, non-free, RC bug,
rdepends: arb, motv, was part of oldstable
-> keep in unstable, prod arb maintainer, remove motv
xslideshow: popcon 64/16/42/6/0, non-free, upstream dead, no rdepends, was part
of oldstable
-> remove
Comments, objections?
Gruesse,
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