Debian Bug report logs - #474985
RM: tac-plus -- RoM; dead upstream, unmaintained

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

From: Ana Guerrero <ana@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: tac-plus: should this package be orphaned?

Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:13:11 +0200

Package: tac-plus
Version: 1:4.0.4.alpha-14.2
Severity: important
User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Usertags: proposed-orphan

Dear Maintainer,

While reviewing some packages, your package came up as a package that
should maybe be orphaned. Their current maintainers seems MIA,
latest maintainer upload was 2 years ago, lastest 2 uploads are NMU,
and the package has some bugs easy to fix that unaddressed.

Peter, since you did the last NMU, you have something to add?

If you think that it should be removed from Debian instead of being
orphaned, please reply to this bug and tell so.

If you disagree and want to continue to maintain this package, please
close this bug and do an upload also fixing the other issues.
Also, you can study the possibility of taking co-maintainers.

If you agree that it should be orphaned, send the following commands
to control@bugs.debian.org (replace nnnnnn with this bug's number):

severity nnnnnn normal
reassign nnnnnn wnpp
retitle nnnnnn O: <packagename> -- <short package description>
thanks

If you think it should be removed, send the following commands instead:

severity nnnnnn normal
reassign nnnnnn ftp.debian.org
retitle nnnnnn RM: <packagename> -- RoM; <reasons> 
thanks

For more information, see
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-archive-manip
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/


Thank you,

Message #10 received at 474985@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eric Evans <eevans@sym-link.com>

To: Ana Guerrero <ana@debian.org>, 474985@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#474985: tac-plus: should this package be orphaned?

Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:24:45 -0500

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[ Ana Guerrero ]
> Package: tac-plus
> Version: 1:4.0.4.alpha-14.2
> Severity: important
> User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: proposed-orphan
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> While reviewing some packages, your package came up as a package that
> should maybe be orphaned. Their current maintainers seems MIA,
> latest maintainer upload was 2 years ago, lastest 2 uploads are NMU,
> and the package has some bugs easy to fix that unaddressed.

If Carlos is MIA then this package should be (at the very least), 
orphaned. I made an upload that added myself as a co-maintainer two years
ago but no longer have access to an environment where I could test it[1].

This version of tac-plus is the reference implementation released by
Cisco and has been unmaintained upstream since 2000. The Debian package 
also includes a number of questionable patches gathered from various 
places, and in general is in pretty bad shape. If no one steps forward,
I believe it should be removed from the archive prior to the release of
Lenny.

Anyone considering adoption should consider basing the package off the
fork available at: http://www.shrubbery.net/tac_plus/

[1] I should have removed myself as co-maintainer a long time ago to
reflect reality.

-- 
Eric Evans
eevans@sym-link.com

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Message #21 received at 474985-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: 474985-close@bugs.debian.org

Cc: tac-plus@packages.debian.org, tac-plus@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#474985: fixed

Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:23:04 +0000

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

  tac-plus | 1:4.0.4.alpha-14+b2 | m68k
  tac-plus | 1:4.0.4.alpha-14.1 | arm
  tac-plus | 1:4.0.4.alpha-14.2 | source, alpha, amd64, hppa, i386, ia64, 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 474985@bugs.debian.org.

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