Debian Bug report logs - #736557
RM: openswan -- RoQA; unmaintained, RC-buggy

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

From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org>

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

Subject: RM: openswan -- RoQA; unmaintained, RC-buggy

Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 23:21:36 +0100

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

Hi,
please remove openswan. It has seen it's last upload 16 months ago, has three RC bugs by now
and was already dropped from testing 3.5 months ago. A security-sensitive package like
this needs a higher level of maintenance. Alternatives exist (e.g. strongswan)

Cheers,
        Moritz

Message #10 received at 736557@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

To: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org>, Christian Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>

Cc: 737899@bugs.debian.org, 737897@bugs.debian.org, 737648@bugs.debian.org, mia@qa.debian.org, 736557@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Please follow the MIA process instead of asking for package removal

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 23:32:45 +0200

Hi Moritz, hi Christian,

please follow the MIA process [1] instead of requesting the removal of 
packages you consider "Apparently unmaintained".

This gives other developers the chance to adopt the package
(yes, many packages get adopted quite quickly after filing an O: WNPP bug).

And it is very bad for the overall quality of Debian when the one 
RC-buggy package of a MIA maintainer gets removed, but all his other 
packages stay unmaintained.

Thanks in advance
Adrian

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/MIATeam

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Message #15 received at 736557@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>

To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Cc: 736557@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Please follow the MIA process instead of asking for package removal

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:05:12 +0100

On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 11:32:45PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Hi Moritz, hi Christian,
> 
> please follow the MIA process [1] instead of requesting the removal of 
> packages you consider "Apparently unmaintained".

I know what I'm doing (I have reported dozens of inactive maintainers
to mia@qda over the years) and in this case removal is the best way
to proceed.

Cheers,
        Moritz

Message #20 received at 736557@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>

To: 736557@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Please follow the MIA process instead of asking for package removal

Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:08:34 +0200

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 08:05:12PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:

Please also see
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/msg00067.html 

(Seems there was misunderstanding and corsac thought it was already
removed by now)

Cheers,
        Moritz

Message #25 received at 736557@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@debian.org>

To: 736557@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Not ready yet

Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 14:53:46 +0200

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo


Not ready yet:

# Broken Depends:
l2tp-ipsec-vpn-daemon: l2tp-ipsec-vpn-daemon [amd64 armel armhf i386
mips mipsel powerpc s390x sparc]

Message #32 received at 736557@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>

To: Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@debian.org>

Cc: 736557@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Not ready yet

Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:56:58 +0200

On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 02:53:46PM +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> 
> Not ready yet:
> 
> # Broken Depends:
> l2tp-ipsec-vpn-daemon: l2tp-ipsec-vpn-daemon [amd64 armel armhf i386
> mips mipsel powerpc s390x sparc]

l2tp-ipsec-vpn-daemon has been removed, so openswan is good to go.

Cheers,
        Moritz

Message #39 received at 736557-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: 736557-close@bugs.debian.org

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

Subject: Bug#736557: Removed package(s) from unstable

Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 11:26:03 +0000

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

  openswan | 1:2.6.38-1 | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390x, sparc
openswan-dbg | 1:2.6.38-1 | amd64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390x, sparc
openswan-doc | 1:2.6.38-1 | all
openswan-modules-dkms | 1:2.6.38-1 | amd64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390x, sparc
openswan-modules-source | 1:2.6.38-1 | all

------------------- Reason -------------------
RoQA; unmaintained, RC-buggy
----------------------------------------------

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 and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next
dinstall 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 were closed
correctly or should have been re-assigned to another package.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 736557@bugs.debian.org.

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