Dear Peter, I am in general still active but due to private stuff I was quite bad maintaining aufs the last months, I am really sorry. I will try to take a look into the package at the weekend. Additionally, I will create a RFH bug, maybe somebody wants to help me so there is no single point of failure in the future.
Best, Jan On 26.05.20 15:18, peter green wrote: > The aufs package last saw a maintainer upload in September 2019 and was > last-updated (by a NMU) in October 2019. It has had broken > build-dependencies in testing for half a year now (since Linux 5.3.9-3 > migrated to testing in November 2019). > > According to dak rm the aufs source-package has two > reverse-dependencies, aufs-tools and fsprotect neither of which has any > reverse-dependencies. > > Adrian filed a rc bug in November 2019 which received no maintainer > response, however the package was not autoremoved from testing due to > aufs and aufs-tools being considered a "key packages" due to high > popcon. This popcon actually seems to be growing in both absolute and > percentage terms. I presume the high popcon is due to some deriviative > (hence debian-derivatives and debian-live in cc) using aufs in their > live image builds (as far as I can tell debian's own live images seem to > use overlayfs instead nowadays). > > aufs does seem to still be maintained upstream with upstream claiming > support for Linux 5.6. > > According to contributors.debian.net Jan Luca Naumann (the aufs > maintainer) was last active in September 2019. Jan: are you still > around? and if so do you still intend to maintain the aufs package? if > not is someone else going to step up to the plate? or should these > packages be removed from testing?
