Bug#646582: qpopper: should this package be removed?
retitle 646582 RM: qpopper -- RoQA; Orphaned; RC-buggy reassign 646582 ftp.debian.org severity 646582 normal thanks On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:48:02PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: Package: qpopper Version: 4.0.9.dfsg-1.2 Severity: serious Justification: unmaintained, FTBFS, multiple RC bugs, alternatives exist User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: proposed-removal [X-Debbugs-Cc to the new maintainer in experimental, who uploaded one alpha version in 2007.] qpopper seems like a possible candidate for removal from Debian: * RC-buggy (fails to build from source with newer OpenSSL, easy patch in Ubuntu; qpopper-drac doesn't work with modern pam; sid maintainer's email address is broken) * not in wheezy, no new upstream version since before lenny * alternatives exist (Dovecot is a perfectly good POP3 server, and also does IMAP) * unsupported upstream, no release since 2008 * requires recompilation for configuration changes (mbox vs. maildir) All of these reasons still look true, so I believe it's time to remove this from the archive. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship Specialty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#646582: qpopper: should this package be removed?
Package: qpopper Version: 4.0.9.dfsg-1.2 Severity: serious Justification: unmaintained, FTBFS, multiple RC bugs, alternatives exist User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: proposed-removal [X-Debbugs-Cc to the new maintainer in experimental, who uploaded one alpha version in 2007.] qpopper seems like a possible candidate for removal from Debian: * RC-buggy (fails to build from source with newer OpenSSL, easy patch in Ubuntu; qpopper-drac doesn't work with modern pam; sid maintainer's email address is broken) * not in wheezy, no new upstream version since before lenny * alternatives exist (Dovecot is a perfectly good POP3 server, and also does IMAP) * unsupported upstream, no release since 2008 * requires recompilation for configuration changes (mbox vs. maildir) If you want to keep this package around in Debian, please close this bug, and do an upload to unstable to fix the many issues in this package. If you don't think it's worth keeping, please send the following commands to cont...@bugs.debian.org, replacing nn with this bug's number: severity nn normal reassign nn ftp.debian.org retitle nn RM: packagename -- RoM; reasons thanks For more information, see http://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt Regards, smcv -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
