Debian Bug report logs - #279770
RM: ibcs -- RoQA, only works with kernel 2.0/2.2

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

From: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: O: ibcs -- iBCS Emulator Modules for Linux (2.2.x kernel)

Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 07:07:08 +0100

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

The current maintainer of ibcs, Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>,
is apparently not active anymore.  Therefore, I orphan this package
now.  If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed
instructions how to adopt a package properly.

Some information about this package:

Package: ibcs
Binary: ibcs-base, ibcs-source-2.2
Version: 981105-4
Priority: optional
Section: otherosfs
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 4.0)
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.5.7
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/i/ibcs
Files: 65f398944146bac6c5aad439924808fa 681 ibcs_981105-4.dsc
 df26b2e45b07338ad262e1b7ca40070a 346696 ibcs_981105.orig.tar.gz
 92975f907e806f6357b4fae869b7bf5f 9254 ibcs_981105-4.diff.gz

Package: ibcs-base
Priority: optional
Section: otherosfs
Installed-Size: 228
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: ibcs
Version: 981105-4
Replaces: ibcs, ibcs2.0.32
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), makedev (>=1.6-11)
Recommends: ibcs-source-2.0 | ibcs-source-2.2
Conflicts: ibcs, ibcs2.0.32
Filename: pool/main/i/ibcs/ibcs-base_981105-4_i386.deb
Size: 76970
MD5sum: 29e11ea04326fd8bfb7260c596d0dc90
Description: Intel Binary Compatibility Specification Module
 The iBCS Emulator runs binaries for other Unixes.
 Emulations provided:
  * Sparc Solaris
  * i386 BSD (386BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSDI/386) - very alpha, very old.
  * SVR4 (Interactive, Unixware, USL, Dell etc.)
  * SVR3 generic
  * SCO (SVR3 with extensions for symlinks and long filenames)
  * SCO OpenServer 5
  * Wyse V/386 (SVR3 with extensions for symlinks)
  * Xenix V/386 (386 small model binaries only)
 .
 Subsystems emulated:
  * SYSV IPC
  * /dev/socksys socket interface as used by the Lachman STREAMS
    based networking implementation.
  * BSD and Wyse V/386 system call socket interface.
  * /dev/spx STREAMS device (limited server support).
  * XTI/TLI transports for TCP, UDP and related protocols - client
    only (outgoing connections). Accepting connections untested.
 .
 This package contains the shared tools used by iBCS for both the 2.0
 and 2.2 series kernels.

Package: ibcs-source-2.2
Priority: optional
Section: otherosfs
Installed-Size: 180
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Source: ibcs
Version: 981105-4
Recommends: ibcs-base, kernel-source-2.2 | kernel-source-2.2.20
Filename: pool/main/i/ibcs/ibcs-source-2.2_981105-4_all.deb
Size: 145742
MD5sum: 9e3ca8e1139ad3b7fe5b64178e32321c
Description: iBCS Emulator Modules for Linux (2.2.x kernel)
 The iBCS Emulator runs binaries for other Unixes.
 .
 This package contains the source for the loadable modules for the
 iBCS Emulator.  This source code is for 2.2 series kernels.
 .
 This package does not contain module binaries.  You must build the
 iBCS module your kernel needs.

Justification: Mail bouncing for 3 months, last upload half a year ago

Message #8 received at 279770@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org>

To: debian-qa@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Let's remove ibcs

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:02:27 +1100

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On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 02:57:00PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:47:34AM +1100, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I think ibcs is probably worth getting rid of:
> > 
> > * orphaned (#279770)
> > * only really relevant for 2.0 and 2.2 kernels it seems (linux-abi seems to
> >   replace it for more modern kernels)
> 
> I agree.
> 
> By the way, best is IMHO to also attach this kind of info to the
> orphaned bug report, so that people looking for this kind of information
> can find it.
> 
> Pending removal from unstable, it's IMHO an idea to file a RC bug on the
> package (reason: useless package not fit for release), and ask -release
> to drop it from sarge.
> 

Could someone with authority please reassign the WNPP bug to ftp.debian.org?

regards

Andrew

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Message #17 received at 279770-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian Archive Maintenance <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 279770-close@bugs.debian.org

Cc: ibcs@packages.debian.org, ibcs@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#279770: fixed

Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:44:00 -0500

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

      ibcs |   981105-4 | source
 ibcs-base |   981105-4 | i386, sparc
ibcs-source-2.2 |   981105-4 | all

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 279770@bugs.debian.org.

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