Bug#939628: should archipel-* packages be removed from Debian?

[Sandro Tosi]

>  I'm in a rush now but will try to file the RM bug(s) today or if you
> may have more time please do it yourself.

no worries, i'm gonna file the RM bugs now -- thanks!

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Bug#939628: should archipel-* packages be removed from Debian?

[GCS]

Hi Sandro,

On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 4:36 AM Sandro Tosi  wrote:
> Debian is trying to remove Python 2 from the distribution
> (https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal) and i stumbled across archipel.
>
> It looks like this project is no longer maintained upstream:
>
> * https://github.com/ArchipelProject/Archipel latest commit is more than 3 
> years
>   ago
> * the homepage http://archipelproject.org/ returns an error from cloudflare 
> and
>   the wayback machine can find an actual page only back in April 2018
> * the mailing list https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/archipelproject has
>   no new post (execpt to report the website down) since early 2016
 Indeed, this is the case. It was a promising project that my employer
might use and good for the community of Debian as well. But now
upstream is dead an it seems no one is out there to fork it or
continue with it in any way.

> It is my belief we should remove archipel* packages from Debian, in particular
> because they are a close-set of packages, and they could ideally allow other
> python2 packages to be removed (as archipel* will disappear as their
> reverse-dependencies).
 Yup, these packages can go away immediately.

> If i dont hear back in a week, i'll file RM bugs for all the aforementioned
> packages.
 I'm in a rush now but will try to file the RM bug(s) today or if you
may have more time please do it yourself.

Thanks for the heads-up,
Laszlo/GCS

Bug#939628: should archipel-* packages be removed from Debian?

[Sandro Tosi]

Package: src:archipel-core
Severity: serious

Hello,
Debian is trying to remove Python 2 from the distribution
(https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal) and i stumbled across archipel.

It looks like this project is no longer maintained upstream:

* https://github.com/ArchipelProject/Archipel latest commit is more than 3 years
  ago
* the homepage http://archipelproject.org/ returns an error from cloudflare and
  the wayback machine can find an actual page only back in April 2018
* the mailing list https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/archipelproject has
  no new post (execpt to report the website down) since early 2016

Here below is a recapt of the status of the archipel packages:

package last-upload popcon
archipel-core   2013-05-0547
archipel-agent-action-scheduler 2013-05-0512
archipel-agent-hypervisor-geolocalization   2013-05-05 7
archipel-agent-hypervisor-health2013-05-0510
archipel-agent-hypervisor-network   2013-05-0514
archipel-agent-hypervisor-platformrequest   2013-05-0510
archipel-agent-iphone-notification  2013-05-0517
archipel-agent-virtualmachine-oomkiller 2013-05-0512
archipel-agent-virtualmachine-snapshoting   2013-05-0513
archipel-agent-vmcasting2013-05-05 9
archipel-agent-vmparking2013-05-05 9
archipel-agent-xmppserver   2013-05-0510
archipel-agent-virtualmachine-vnc   2013-05-0513

It is my belief we should remove archipel* packages from Debian, in particular
because they are a close-set of packages, and they could ideally allow other
python2 packages to be removed (as archipel* will disappear as their
reverse-dependencies).

If i dont hear back in a week, i'll file RM bugs for all the aforementioned
packages.

Regards,
Sandro

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