Debian Bug report logs - #469039
RM: linda -- RoM; deprecated

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

From: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>

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

Subject: linda: Should this package be removed?

Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:31:48 +0100

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Package: linda
Severity: serious

Hi Maintainer,

what are your plans with this package? It currently is pretty outdated,
has a good number of bugs, is outdated with current policy, the last
upload was in June 2007 and linda is also no longer in use in the
archive software, as lintian has all checks that linda had at some time,
si I removed linda calls a while ago.


But you might have something in development, or some plans to get it up
to speed again?! In case you have that - please reply and tag/close this
bug accordingly.

If not, I propose to remove it from the archive soon, so it won't
release with lenny. If you agree to this, please reassign the bug to
ftp.debian.org with the following two lines, or tell me to do it:

reassign $bugnumber ftp.debian.org
retitle $bugnumber RM: linda -- RoM; deprecated


Thank you and thanks for your past work on this package!

-- 
bye, Joerg
<_DeadBull_> ohne speicher, tastatur, mouse, pladde, monitor, also nur die
	Hardware...

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Message #14 received at 469039-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Kowalik <stevenk@debian.org>

To: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>, 469039-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#469039: linda: Should this package be removed?

Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:34:17 +1100

reassign 469039 ftp.debian.org
retitle 469039 RM: linda -- RoM; deprecated
kthxbye

Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> what are your plans with this package? It currently is pretty outdated,
> has a good number of bugs, is outdated with current policy, the last
> upload was in June 2007 and linda is also no longer in use in the
> archive software, as lintian has all checks that linda had at some time,
> si I removed linda calls a while ago.
> 
> 
> But you might have something in development, or some plans to get it up
> to speed again?! In case you have that - please reply and tag/close this
> bug accordingly.

Remove it. Lets say Linda didn't meet my expectations, and most people
shunned her in favour of Lintian anyway.

Thanks,
-- 
                                        Steve
C offers you enough rope to hang yourself.
C++ offers a fully equipped firing squad, a last cigarette and
a blindfold.
         - Erik de Castro Lopo

Message #19 received at 469039-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>

To: Steve Kowalik <stevenk@debian.org>

Cc: 469039-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#469039: linda: Should this package be removed?

Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:53:43 +0100

On 11313 March 1977, Steve Kowalik wrote:

>> But you might have something in development, or some plans to get it up
>> to speed again?! In case you have that - please reply and tag/close this
>> bug accordingly.
> Remove it. Lets say Linda didn't meet my expectations, and most people
> shunned her in favour of Lintian anyway.

Thanks for the quick response.

Just for the record - it *was* in use. Possibly more than you thought.
At least sponsors did use it a lot, there have been many changelog
entries about changes for linda in the past, and it was pretty helpful
in NEW in the past.

-- 
bye, Joerg
Natriumchlorid ist ein hochgefährlicher Stoff, denn er enthält
Chlor, welches im Ersten Weltkrieg als Kampfgas eingesetzt wurde.

Message #24 received at 469039-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: 469039-close@bugs.debian.org

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

Subject: Bug#469039: fixed

Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:56:40 +0000

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

     linda |     0.3.26 | source, 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 469039@bugs.debian.org.

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