I figure CERN should appoint one of its staff to become a Debian developer to maintain the package.
In the meantime, might be simpler to drop it as you suggest. Our packages need people to love them. Drew On Mon, 2016-05-30 at 22:33 +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Hi science people! > > So, not root-system got entangled it Yet Another Transition (actually > this is only the remaining decrufting from sid): openssl. > > The old binaries still there depend on libssl1.0.0, whilst now there > is > libssl1.0.2, removing SSLv3 methods. > I also see this as a kind of important (as security-related) change > that > really needs to be done. > > I saw nobody willing to step trying to tackle and tame that huge > beast, > I tried earlier in the year, but ran out of steam without managing to > do > anything useful. > > So, IMHO, we should just remove it, until somebody else doing another > physic PhD comes wanting to put it back for another bunch of years, > maybe improving the scripts around and making the maintenance easy > also > to one-time shooters. > > There are only 2 rdeps, fastjet and rivet, and they do it only for 2 > binary packages, which could be just dropped¹. > > I'm CCing the person listed in the Uploaders field of all those 3 > packages, which seems to be gone. > > If once again I'm not hearing any complaint in 2 weeks or so I'll > team > upload rivet and fastjet to drop the binaries depending on root, and > then RM root itself. > > Thanks for listening and reading till now :) > > > > ¹ On a related note, also fastject and river and their rdeps herwig++ > and thepeg and their rdep pythia8 and its rdep hepmc could just go: > there is currently nobody caring, some have NMUs, and the maintainer > is > seemingly gone. They are not bothering me though, so I'm not going > to > to ask for RM of them anytime soon. >
