On Monday, 4 August 2025 9:52:45 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time Helmut Grohne wrote: > Dear mysql-workbench maintainer and ftp team, > > a month has passed since filing a suggestion to remove mysql-workbench > from Debian. It was suggested for removal due to not being part of bookworm > nor trixie and having accumulated a long-standing RC bug. > * #1000093: mysql-workbench: depends on obsolete pcre3 library > Last modified: 1 year, 1 month
For the record, I am really unhappy about hasty removal of my package. Due to grave circumstances in my life I'm responding slowly, but why should I watch those removal suggestions like a hawk, to avoid packages that I care about being swiftly swiped away over trivial matters?!? The RC bug (that I've missed) regarding pcre3 dependency contained a patch that could simply be applied, and(!) in my last upload in March 2025 I have already removed pcre3 dependency [1] so the bug was already fixed yet not closed. It is most unfortunate to have the package removed quite fast over low impact bug that was already fixed (without closing the issue)... :( Forgetting to close a bug by changelog should not have lead to package removal. If possible please undo the removal as MySQL-Workbench is a heavy package that would be difficult to process by ftp-masters if package goes through the NEW process again. [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/mysql-workbench/-/commit/ 1d78ab9b786508992bd3f052057e7096c3e29b3d#9c96da0e9f91d7d8937b69b524702c106258f0d1_1_16 -- Regards, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/52B6BBD953968D1B --- Journalists don't sit down and think, "I'm now going to speak for the establishment." Of course not. But they internalize a whole set of assumptions, and one of the most potent assumptions is that the world should be seen in terms of its usefulness to the West, not humanity. This leads journalists to make a distinction between people who matter and people who don't matter. -- John Pilger
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