Debian Bug report logs - #383960
RM: netkit-base -- RoQA; obsolete; no rev-deps

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

From: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>

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

Subject: RM: netkit-base; abandoned, obsolete, no reverse dependencies

Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:22:20 +0100

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

Please could you remove netkit-base (netkit-inetd, netkit-ping) from
unstable (and testing once this is possible)?

netkid-base is:

* abandoned upstream for many years
* unmaintained in Debian for two years
* does not build from unpatched upstream source
* upstream source is of poor quality
* it will never support IPv6
* netkit-inetd is superceded in testing and unstable by openbsd-inetd
* netkit-inetd now has no reverse dependencies (other than an alternative
  depends in ltsp-server, which is being dealt with; this should not
  prevent removal.  See #382681 for more detail).
* netkit-ping has three reverse dependencies (mrtg-ping-probe,
  heartbeat, heartbeat-2) but all are alternative dependencies.  I will
  be filing bugs against these three packages, but all allow
  iputils-ping as the alternative.


Regards,
Roger


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Message #12 received at 383960@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>

To: 383960@bugs.debian.org, Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>

Subject: Removing netkit-base from unstable/testing?

Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:25:55 +0100

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Hi

What do you think as maintainer, should netkit-base be removed from the
archive? Should it not be included in etch?

Are there any preconditions?

Cheers

Luk

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Message #17 received at 383960@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org>

To: 383960@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug #383960: RM: netkit-base -- RoQA; obsolete; no rev-deps

Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:56:10 +0000

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Hi,

Since the NMUs of heartbeat and heartbeat-2, netkit-base no longer has
any dependencies in unstable, even optional alternative dependencies.
The only remaining control data is for upgrading to replacement
implementations.

It should now be possible to remove without any problems.


Regards,
Roger

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

To: 383960-close@bugs.debian.org

Cc: netkit-base@packages.debian.org, netkit-base@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#383960: fixed

Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:00:11 +0000

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

netkit-base |  0.10-10.3 | source
netkit-inetd |  0.10-10.3 | alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
netkit-ping |  0.10-10.3 | alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, 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 383960@bugs.debian.org.

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