Debian Bug report logs - #672853
RM: tremulous,tremulous-data -- ROM; old fork of Quake 3, security issues likely, dormant upstream, unmaintained

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

From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>

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

Subject: RM: tremulous,tremulous-data -- ROM; old fork of Quake 3, security issues likely, dormant upstream, unmaintained

Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 09:16:46 +0100

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: 660849@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel-games@lists.debian.org

On 11th April I wrote:
> Given Tremulous' history of security vulnerabilities and apparent lack
> of upstream interest in point releases, I don't think Tremulous should
> be in wheezy without an active maintainer. If nobody has adopted it
> within a month I will ask for it to be removed.

It's a month later and nobody has spoken up, so here is the request for
removal. ftp team: see http://bugs.debian.org/660849 for further background.

I am not a maintainer of tremulous-data (it's still officially maintained
by Damien Laniel, who maintained tremulous before the Games Team did), but
it hasn't been touched since oldstable and is useless without the tremulous
engine, so I'm requesting its removal too. Call that one "RoQA: useless
without tremulous" if you prefer.

    S

Message #10 received at 672853-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 672853-close@bugs.debian.org

Cc: tremulous-data@packages.debian.org, tremulous-data@packages.qa.debian.org, tremulous@packages.debian.org, tremulous@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#672853: Removed package(s) from unstable

Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 23:05:06 +0000

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

 tremulous |    1.1.0-8 | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc
tremulous-data |    1.1.0-2 | source, all
tremulous-doc |    1.1.0-8 | all
tremulous-server |    1.1.0-8 | amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc

------------------- Reason -------------------
ROM; old fork of Quake 3, security issues likely, dormant upstream, unmaintained
----------------------------------------------

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 usually not 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. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is
really needed, please contact them if this should be the case.

We try to close Bugs which have been reported against this package
automatically.  But please check all old bugs, if they where closed
correctly or should have been re-assign to another package.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 672853@bugs.debian.org.

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