Hi ftpmaster, Hi Helmut, While I have been involved in the Debian Med team, who maintained the package, I had little to no involvement in epigrass in itself, so weight my message accordingly.
Helmut Grohne, on 2024-10-30: > Since the suggestion bug was neither closed nor tagged in a month, silent > consent to proceed with removal is assumed. I agree with the conclusion of the automated tool. While epigrass happens to be a tool specifically tailored to deal with epidemics and would have been invaluable four years ago, I must agree its accumulating issues seem to have been an energy drain for maintainers of the team. Open RC bugs require introduction of several non-trivial packages to the archive first; I have spent some time on open issues to see on which front I could help, without much success. I did question myself whether to adjust bug metadata to prevent removal, as a package removal then reintroduction might incur more work for everyone, notably further round trip through New, but thought I was not the right person to do that as I had little involvement in the package and did not manage to resolve much of the open issues. In this very particular case, after the package removal, I think that a good course of action might be to put back epigrass as a wnpp, status RFP, to document the existing work around the package, eventually document work that is left to do before the package can be brought back to a suitable state for upload to the archive. Maybe at some point, someone with enough interest in the software will have the energy to reintroduce it. I suspect that if I wait for the actual removal to occur, then I'm going to forget about proceeding. I'm considering filling the wnpp bug ahead of time before forgetting about doing it. The RFP package would thus still be in the archive, hope that won't interfere with the tooling? Have a nice day, :) -- .''`. Étienne Mollier <[email protected]> : :' : pgp: 8f91 b227 c7d6 f2b1 948c 8236 793c f67e 8f0d 11da `. `' sent from /dev/pts/2, please excuse my verbosity `-
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