Debian Bug report logs - #456745
RM: xmms-arts -- RoM; xmms is going away

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kumar Appaiah <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: xmms-arts: should this package be removed?
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:30:06 +0530

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Package: xmms-arts
Version: 0.7.1-4
Severity: important
User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Usertags: proposed-removal

Hi,

While reviewing some packages, your package came up as a possible
candidate for removal from Debian, because:

 * The package depends on XMMS, which is slated to be removed.

If you think that it should be orphaned instead of being removed from
Debian, please reply to this bug and tell so.

One possible solution is that this package could be adapted to use an
XMMS alternative. If this is the case, please package the plugin for
the XMMS alternative, and do not depend on XMMS.

If you agree, sending the following commands to control@bugs.debian.org
should do it (after replacing nnnnnn with this bug's number):
severity nnnnnn normal
reassign nnnnnn ftp.debian.org
retitle nnnnnn RM: <packagename> -- RoM; <reasons> 
thanks

For more information, see
http://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals
http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt

If you disagree and want to continue to maintain this package, please
just close this bug, preferably in an upload also fixing the other
issues.

Thank you,
Kumar (on behalf of the QA group)
-- 
Kumar Appaiah,
458, Jamuna Hostel,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai - 600 036

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Message #16 received at 456745-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Debian Archive Maintenance <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>
To: 456745-close@bugs.debian.org
Cc: xmms-arts@packages.debian.org, xmms-arts@packages.qa.debian.org 
Subject: Bug#456745: fixed
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:48:40 +0000

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

 xmms-arts |    0.7.1-4 | source, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.

Packages are never removed from testing by hand.  Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems.

Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
removed from the Bug Tracking System.  Please check all open bugs and
close them or re-assign them to another package if the removed package
was superseded by another one.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 456745@bugs.debian.org.

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