Debian Bug report logs - #406573
RM: melon -- RoM; abandoned upstream; better alternatives exist

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

From: Philipp Frauenfelder <pfrauenf@debian.org>

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

Subject: ftp.debian.org: remove package "melon" from unstable

Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:06:59 +0100

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Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

Hi

Please remove the package melon[1] from the unstable distribution.

[1] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/melon

Reasons:
- it is not used by many users (only 5 votes at the time of
  writing on popcon)
- there are a lot of better alternatives
- it is not developed upstream (last release was in 2002)
- it uses the old gnome1.2 libraries

Thank you
Philipp

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
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Message #12 received at 406573-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: 406573-close@bugs.debian.org

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

Subject: Bug#406573: fixed

Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:26:11 +0000

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

     melon |      1.6-4 | 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 406573@bugs.debian.org.

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