Bug#812501: RM: user-mode-linux -- RoQA; RC-buggy, low popcon, unmaintained

[Vincent Bernat]

 ❦ 24 janvier 2016 13:47 GMT, Mattia Rizzolo  :

> This package is broken most of the time in unstable due to nobody taking
> care of it to stay in sync with the current linux version.
>
> It's fairly unmaintained, with the last 3 uploads (with new upstream
> releases) made through NMUs.

That's quite severe. This is not an easy package as it usually fails to
build upstream. It is quite interesting from an educational perspective
since this is the friendlier arch of Linux to use with a debugger.

The current RC bug is not two-week old. The package was always present
in the stable releases. jwilk was always able to keep it up to
shape. Not sure if he wants the official burden of maintaining it.

I don't have time either, but the package could just wait for the
"natural" decay process and be pushed out of testing due to the RC
bug to see if anyone is interested enough to keep it in the archive.
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Bug#812501: RM: user-mode-linux -- RoQA; RC-buggy, low popcon, unmaintained

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Tags: moreinfo
X-Debbugs-Cc: user-mode-li...@packages.debian.org

This package is broken most of the time in unstable due to nobody taking
care of it to stay in sync with the current linux version.

It's fairly unmaintained, with the last 3 uploads (with new upstream
releases) made through NMUs.

It has 2 rdep, pbuilder-uml which I'm going to drop with the next upload
and rootstrap, for which I'm going to request another RM.

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Bug#812501: RM: user-mode-linux -- RoQA; RC-buggy, low popcon, unmaintained

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Thought I don't use it very often, it is a nice tool. And I'd hate to
see it go.

Let me look at my mail archive. I believe Mattia Dongli's actual plan
was to push it to the kernel team, which would be the right place for
this package.

Let's hold this removal. I'll try to shape this package.



On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 13:47 +, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> Package: ftp.debian.org
> Tags: moreinfo
> X-Debbugs-Cc: user-mode-li...@packages.debian.org
> 
> This package is broken most of the time in unstable due to nobody
> taking
> care of it to stay in sync with the current linux version.
> 
> It's fairly unmaintained, with the last 3 uploads (with new upstream
> releases) made through NMUs.
> 
> It has 2 rdep, pbuilder-uml which I'm going to drop with the next
> upload
> and rootstrap, for which I'm going to request another RM.
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System


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Bug#812501: RM: user-mode-linux -- RoQA; RC-buggy, low popcon, unmaintained

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:30:54PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Let's hold this removal. I'll try to shape this package.

ok.
Do you also want to hold rootstrap removal?  in that case you should
comment there (and add a moreinfo tag).

-- 
regards,
Mattia Rizzolo

GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18  4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540  .''`.
more about me:  http://mapreri.org  : :'  :
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Bug#812501: RM: user-mode-linux -- RoQA; RC-buggy, low popcon, unmaintained

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 18:10 +, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:30:54PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> > Let's hold this removal. I'll try to shape this package.
> 
> ok.
> Do you also want to hold rootstrap removal?  in that case you should
> comment there (and add a moreinfo tag).

That too is maintained by him. I'll see these later, on how much work
is involved. Me too don't have that much time.

The bugs anyways have a deadline of Feb end, which is good. If I can't
shape it by then, it'd be safe to assume I can't commit time for it
either.


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