Control: clone -1 -2 Control: severity -2 normal Control: retitle -2 RM: slang-histogram -- RoQA; duplicate of libslang2-modules Control: reassign -2 ftp.debian.org
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 08:22:19PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Package: slang-histogram > Version: 0.3.2a-4 > Severity: serious > Control: affects -1 + src:slxfig > > slang-histogram contains an old version of the histogram module for > slang. A more recent version of it is shipped with libslang2-modules. > Indeed, libslang2-modules provides and conflicts slang-histogram. > > It appears that this package is utterly useless now. If this analysis is > wrong in any way, please downgrade the severity immediately. Otherwise, > please ask ftp master to remove the package from unstable. > > The presence of this package breaks cross building of slxfig due to an > apt bug (bugnum pending). Two months ago, I filed the above rc bug against slang-histogram. Meanwhile, it got removed from buster and no reply. I think this is sufficient time to proceed with actual removal. Therefore, please remove the slang-histogram source package from unstable. Given that it is provided by libslang2-modules, doing so cannot break any dependencies. Helmut
