Hi Mattia, On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Mattia Rizzolo <mat...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 10:43:49AM +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote: >> Unfortunately, there're still reverse dependencies in the archive. > > Not really. > >> For example, >> mozart on kfreebsd-i386 > > I've already took care of it, by asking for the removal of that outdated > binary.
Thank you :-) > >> and some other unofficial ports still depend on tcl8.4 and tk8.4. > > I'm not convinced you/we should care of outdated ports when considering > removal of very old package like this. Besides, can you even > effectively check for rdeps on all of ports.debian.org? (note that > ftpmasters processing removals don't check ports either) Well, last time when I asked to remove tcl8.4 and tk8.4 the reason for retaining them was that there are still binary reverse dependencies. > >> So, it's a bit more complicated than just file an RM bugreport. > > I can probably help with that, I've got some experience at handling > deprecation and removals of packages from the archive, but this one > feels straightforward to me. I'll appreciate your help in this. I definitely don't object in removing tcl8.4 and tk8.4 from unstable. Also, I have plans to remove tcl8.5 and tk8.5 as well (after stretch is released and their reverse dependencies are ported to 8.6). Cheers! -- Sergei Golovan