reassign 904483 ftp.debian.org thanks
Ouch, thanks for the heads-up! Cheers, Dererk On 24/07/18 14:13, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 24.07.2018 um 18:53 schrieb Dererk: >> Package: release.debian.org >> Severity: normal >> User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org >> Usertags: rm >> >> Dear RT. >> >> Please remove martian-modem from the Debian Archive. >> >> There are several reasons why to do so, first of all this software >> provides kernel+user space support for quite ancient i386 hardware that >> can no longer be acquired (to the extent of my searches, even externally >> attached such as USB tty device). Just to have an idea, the only way >> for me to even test this is by artificially keeping alive my old >> thinkpad a20p (pentium III). >> >> On the other hand, upstream is way stalled (which also makes sense due >> to the hw itself, right?), having incompatibility issues with gcc5, see >> #799291. >> >> Applying patches and making it work with kernels >=2.6 and amd64 arch >> might work, but since as explained above, this is anyway an attempt to >> support hardware that most likely hardly anyone uses, we see no real >> sense on it. >> >> Popcon is 2/5, from which most likely two of them are my installations, >> heh. > Sounds like you actually want to remove the package from unstable, i.e. > you need to file a bug against ftp.debian.org (or reassign this one) > > -- BOFH excuse #154: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish (from most tunefs man pages)
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