Bug#944755: pylucene: should this package be removed?

[Ryan Tandy]

reassign 944755 ftp.debian.org
retitle 944755 RM: pylucene -- RoQA; FTBFS; RC-buggy for 2 years
severity 944755 normal
thanks

Dear maintainer,

As there was no response in over a month I hereby reassign this bug to 
ftp-masters as a removal request (RoQA).


To ftp-master: removing pylucene should also unblock removing the old 
libasm4-java (#940067).

Bug#944755: pylucene: should this package be removed?

[Ryan Tandy]

Source: pylucene
Severity: important
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: proposed-removal

Dear Maintainer,

for these reasons:

- last upload over 2 years ago;
- FTBFS for over 2 years (#871366);
- fails to import under newer JDKs (#896299) with no response in over a year;
- out-of-date upstream version lacking Python3 support;

I suggest that pylucene should be removed from Debian unless someone can 
step up to update it.

thanks,
Ryan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)