Bug#508413: marked as done (RM: cernlib -- RoM; orphaned, dead upstream)

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:27:35 -0800 

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and subject line Bug#508413: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #508413,
regarding RM: cernlib -- RoM; orphaned, dead upstream
to be marked as done.

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Severity: normal

Hello,

[CC'ed to Fedora CERNLIB maintainer and to debian-science]

I intended to submit this RFA a while ago and was finally prodded into
action by the discussion on debian-devel over libgtk1.2.

As previously mentioned on debian-science at [1], I am not interested in
maintaining CERNLIB and related software into the indefinite future.
Its upstream is dead and it is questionable whether it will even be
possible to keep it operational or even compilable as the build tools
and infrastructure of Debian continue to evolve.  Please refer to [1]
for details if you are interested in taking over the package.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2008/09/msg00028.html

As an update to that email, I received one offer of help (by private
email) on September 15, a week after my posting to debian-science, but I
did not hear any more from this person after I replied to that email.

As promised, I will continue to do as best I can with limited time to
maintain CERNLIB and friends through the release of Squeeze.  Hence this
bug is only a request for adoption for now.  If no one else takes over
the package by the Squeeze release, I will request its removal from Sid
immediately afterwards as "no longer maintainable", and Debian users
will have until the end of Squeeze security support (most likely 6 to 12
months after the release of Squeeze + 1) to migrate to other software.
I'll take this opportunity to suggest ROOT (Debian package "root-system").

CERNLIB (PAW, GEANT 3.21, Monte Carlo library) users should consider
this email their first warning.  As far as I know, Debian and Fedora are
the only organizations left that offer any sort of "official" support
whatsoever for CERNLIB.

best regards,

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Kevin B. McCarty <[email protected]>
WWW: http://www.starplot.org/
WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/
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We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

   cernlib | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | source, all
cernlib-base | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | all
cernlib-base-dev | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | all
cernlib-core | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | all
cernlib-core-dev | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | all
cernlib-extras | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | all
    dzedit | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, 
mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
     kuipc | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, 
mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
    kxterm | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, 
mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libgraflib1-dev | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, 
mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libgraflib1-gfortran | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, 
ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libgrafx11-1-dev | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, 
mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libgrafx11-1-gfortran | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, 
ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libkernlib1-dev | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, 
mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libkernlib1-gfortran | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, 
ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libmathlib2-dev | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, 
mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libmathlib2-gfortran | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, 
ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libpacklib-lesstif1-dev | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, 
ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libpacklib-lesstif1-gfortran | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, 
i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libpacklib1-dev | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, 
mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libpacklib1-gfortran | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, 
ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
  nypatchy | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, 
mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
   pawserv | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, 
mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
      zftp | 2006.dfsg.2-14.1 | alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, 
mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc

------------------- Reason -------------------
RoM; orphaned, dead upstream
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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 [email protected].

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