Debian Bug report logs - #282075
RM: libunicode -- RoQA; orphaned, looks useless

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

From: Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@merkel.debian.org>

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

Subject: O: libunicode -- The GNOME Unicode library.

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 07:52:27 -0700

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

The current maintainer of libunicode, Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>,
has orphaned this package.  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: libunicode
Binary: libunicode0, libunicode-dev
Version: 0.4.0-3
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 2)
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.0.1
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/libu/libunicode
Files: 4e61e6139890876687f3a91a0c7eb234 698 libunicode_0.4.0-3.dsc
 5b57f16d4166163681db11f95690f6b0 231814 libunicode_0.4.0.orig.tar.gz
 79caca74a4113b29b74f0564b9d7fc7c 31402 libunicode_0.4.0-3.diff.gz

Package: libunicode-dev
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Installed-Size: 169
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: libunicode
Version: 0.4.0-3
Depends: libunicode0 (=0.4.0-3)
Filename: pool/main/libu/libunicode/libunicode-dev_0.4.0-3_i386.deb
Size: 50550
MD5sum: b2f82499db22ca380481184f9d0ebb1d
Description: The GNOME Unicode library - development files.
 libunicode is a library for manipulating Unicode characters and
 strings.  It understands both the UTF-8 and UCS-2 encodings, and has a
 framework for adding support for new encodings.

Package: libunicode0
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 164
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: libunicode
Version: 0.4.0-3
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1)
Filename: pool/main/libu/libunicode/libunicode0_0.4.0-3_i386.deb
Size: 51412
MD5sum: 9c130463b8f9436f8dda41efc46b9e1a
Description: The GNOME Unicode library.
 libunicode is a library for manipulating Unicode characters and
 strings.  It understands both the UTF-8 and UCS-2 encodings, and has a
 framework for adding support for new encodings.

Message #24 received at 282075@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Moreno Garza <damog@merkel.debian.org>

To: control@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 282075@bugs.debian.org

Subject: WNPP bug retitle

Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:59:20 -0600

retitle 282075 O: libunicode -- The GNOME Unicode library
noowner 282075
thanks obrigado

Hello,

This is an automatic mail sent to retitle the ITA you have reported or 
are involved with.

Your ITA wnpp bug is being orphaned because of the following reasons:
- It is, as of today, older than 250 days.
- It hasn't had any activity recently.

As this is an automatic procedure, it could of course have something
wrong and probably it would be managing some bugs that are not 
intended by owners and submitters (like you) to be orphaned, for
example if the ITA is still of your interest, or there has been 
some kind of activity around it. In that case, please retitle the
bug, do it, DO IT NOW! (I don't want to be blamed because of
mass closing and not let people know that they can easily recover
their bugs ;-).

To retitle it, you simply have to mail <control@bugs.debian.org>
with a body text like this:

retitle 282075 ITA: libunicode -- The GNOME Unicode library
owner 282075 !
thanks bts

Further comments on the work done in the bug sent to
282075@bugs.debian.org would be truly welcomed.
Anyway, if you have any kind of problems when dealing with
the BTS, feel free to contact me and I'd be more than happy to help
you on this: <damog@debian.org>.

A similar process is being applied to other kind of wnpp bugs.

Thanks for your cooperation,

 -- David Moreno Garza <damog@debian.org>.

Message #29 received at 282075@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Baruch Even <baruch@debian.org>

To: 282075@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Why do we still keep it?

Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 07:14:16 +0200

Why do we need this library?

There is no other package that depends on it, the GTK+/Gnome world has
this or an equivalent one integrated as a part of it and no users for
this are left in Debian.

Baruch

Message #34 received at 282075@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>

To: Bug#282075 <282075@bugs.debian.org>

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Status: O: libunicode -- The GNOME Unicode library

Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 16:01:47 +0100

reassign 282075 ftp.debian.org
retitle 282075 RM: libunicode -- RoQA; orphaned, looks useless
thanks

Hi,

libunicode has been orphaned since 2004, has seen little interest, has
no reverse dependencies, etc.

So I'm requesting its removal now.
-- 
| Lucas Nussbaum
| lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net   http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ |
| jabber: lucas@nussbaum.fr             GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |

Message #45 received at 282075@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>

To: 282075@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: tagging 282075

Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:43:36 +0100

owner !
block 282075 by 455487
block 282075 by 455488
thanks

Hi,

On 10/12/07 at 00:39 +0000, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.26
> tags 282075 + moreinfo

A Cc would have been nice...

Checking reverse dependencies...
** dia has an unsatisfied build-dependency: libunicode-dev
** libgtk-perl has an unsatisfied build-dependency: libunicode-dev
Dependency problem found.

Both packages build-depend on libunicode-dev, but aren't linked against
it. Sounds like old&forgotten build-deps to me.

It seemed easier to remove libunicode now and deal with the
consequences. But I've filed bugs against dia and libgtk-perl to ask
them to remove libunicode from their b-deps.
-- 
| Lucas Nussbaum
| lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net   http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ |
| jabber: lucas@nussbaum.fr             GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |

Message #54 received at 282075@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Adam D. Barratt" <debian-bts@adam-barratt.org.uk>

To: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>, 282075@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#282075: tagging 282075

Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:34:19 +0000

unblock 282075 by 455487
unblock 282075 by 455488
tag 282075 - help moreinfo
thanks

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 13:43 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
[...]
> Checking reverse dependencies...
> ** dia has an unsatisfied build-dependency: libunicode-dev
> ** libgtk-perl has an unsatisfied build-dependency: libunicode-dev
> Dependency problem found.
> 
> Both packages build-depend on libunicode-dev, but aren't linked against
> it. Sounds like old&forgotten build-deps to me.
> 
> It seemed easier to remove libunicode now and deal with the
> consequences. But I've filed bugs against dia and libgtk-perl to ask
> them to remove libunicode from their b-deps.

Both bugs have now been fixed, so unblocking and tagging appropriately.

Regards,

Adam

Message #65 received at 282075-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: 282075-close@bugs.debian.org

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

Subject: Bug#282075: fixed

Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:48:38 +0000

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

libunicode |    0.4.0-5 | source
libunicode-dev |    0.4.0-5 | alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libunicode0 |    0.4.0-5 | 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 282075@bugs.debian.org.

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