Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi,
This is a removal request for the FSO stack, which is no longer maintained upstream. I kept it compiling with newer vala releases for quite some time, but no longer see any purpose in it (the stack recently broke again with new Vala 0.36 upload #871058, #871119). It mainly supports the old Openmoko Freerunner and requires quite some configuration effort to be useful. Also the UI parts have been broken for a few years without anyone caring enough to fix it (#853504, #773586). There is an alternative modem middle layer available in Debian, that is still actively being developed: ofono. Getting that working with telepathy-ring and some telepathy UI should be much simpler and more future-proof than trying to maintain the FSO + SHR stack. Thus I request to remove the following packages from sid. All of them are maintained by the "Debian FSO team", which is effectively me nowadays. * fso-datad * fso-deviced * fso-frameworkd * fso-gsmd * fso-usaged * libphone-ui * libphone-ui-shr * libphone-utils * libshr-glib * openbmap-logger * phonefsod * phoneui-apps * phoneuid * python-phoneutils * shr-specs * fso-common * fso-gpsd * fso-gsm0710muxd * yue-sounds-fso That leaves the following packages from the core FSO stack, since the audio daemon is still useful for providing audio support on Nokia N900 in combination with ofono. * fso-specs * libfsoframework * libfso-glib * libcmtspeechdata * libgsm0710 * fso-audiod I executed the following on mirror.ftp-master.debian.org and no dependency problems have been found: dak rm -Rn fso-datad fso-deviced fso-frameworkd fso-gsmd fso-usaged \ libphone-ui libphone-ui-shr libphone-utils libshr-glib openbmap-logger \ phonefsod phoneui-apps phoneuid python-phoneutils shr-specs fso-gpsd \ fso-common fso-gsm0710muxd yue-sounds-fso -- Sebastian