Debian Bug report logs - #592469
[sumika] Package unsuitable for release

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

From: "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: [sumika] Package unsuitable for release

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:58:14 +0200

Package: sumika
Version: 0.11-2.1
Severity: serious
Tags: squeeze

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Hello,

I think that this package is unsuitable to be released in squeeze.

The source package is 6 years old (2004-04-10), but there's a 0.12 release 
just a month later [1] which was not packaged for Debian, even if new Debian 
packages were uploaded after 0.12 had been released upstream.  It's listed 
as pre-alpha software and didn't have an upstream release in the last 6 
years.

There's only one bug report upstream, not fixed and not acknowledged nor 
closed [2].  Debian bug reports include #349897 (as old as Jan 2006) which 
related the impossibility to use the program due to a segfault when starting 
it, and it was confirmed by other person.  It also includes #345180, a 
whishlist bug providing swedish PO translation, which was not acknowleged.  
In the end, no bugs reported to Debian since ~2005 were attended at all, the 
maintainer never reacted to any of them.

The last upload of the package is a NMU from 2005 fixing a FTBFS, which the 
maintainer never acknowleged.  There are multiple lintian errors too, 
including creating menus in the wrong sections, ancient libtools and 
standards version, deprecated debhelper compatibility version.

The binary program that this program packages lacks any kind of 
documentation, nor manpage, nor even a simple explanation in a dialog box.  
The documentation in the website includes only instructions to build it, not 
to use it in any way.

For all of this and unless the package is updated, I think that it's not 
suitable to be released in Squeeze.

[1] http://sourceforge.jp/projects/sumika/releases/?fulllist=1
[2] http://sourceforge.jp/projects/sumika/ticket


Cheers.

--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.32-5-686

Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  800 unstable        www.debian-multimedia.org 
  800 unstable        ftp.ch.debian.org 
  500 testing         security.debian.org 

--- Package information. ---
Depends              (Version) | Installed
==============================-+-=============
libatk1.0-0         (>= 1.9.0) | 1.30.0-1
libc6             (>= 2.3.5-1) | 2.11.2-2
libgdome2-0                    | 0.8.1+debian-4
libglib2.0-0        (>= 2.8.0) | 2.24.1-1
libgtk2.0-0         (>= 2.6.0) | 2.20.1-1
libpango1.0-0       (>= 1.8.2) | 1.28.1-1
libxml2            (>= 2.6.21) | 2.7.7.dfsg-4
zlib1g            (>= 1:1.2.1) | 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3


Package's Recommends field is empty.

Package's Suggests field is empty.

-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>

Message #12 received at 592469-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>

To: 556475-done@bugs.debian.org, 592469-done@bugs.debian.org, 345180-done@bugs.debian.org, 349897-done@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>

Subject: sumika removed from Debian unstable

Version: 0.11-2.1+rm

sumika has been removed from Debian unstable: http://bugs.debian.org/594121

Closing its bugs with a Version higher than the last unstable upload.

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