Hi all,On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 23:06:45 +0500 Andrey Rakhmatullin <w...@debian.org> wrote:
> keeping the current outdated build is much more useful than not having > access to Mono at all from Debian repositories. Considering the amount of packages depending on mono, removing it from testing is probably out of question anyway, but that's up tio the Release and Security teams. Also, "keeping the outdated unmaintained package is better than not keeping it" is overturned by one of those teams quite often.
Release Team member here. mono is a key package [1], meaning it's hard to remove. I note that src:mono is at least needed for src:gdcm which is at least needed for src:opencv which is at least needed for src:ffmpeg. If mono should be removed (I haven't investigated yet if that's appropriate from the Release Team point of view) then somebody should work out how to remove it from the key package set.
Without more substantiation why the current version of mono is broken (not just old and unmaintained), this bug will very likely not block the release.
Paul [1] https://release.debian.org/key-packages.html
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