retitle 653168 RM: oprofile - unmaintained, replacements exist, buggy, low popcon reassign 653168 ftp.debian.org severity 653168 normal thanks
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 03:55:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 04:56:55PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > > Source: oprofile > > Severity: serious > > > > oprofile seems like a candidate for removal: > > > > - Last maintainer upload in 2009 > > - No followup to security or RC bugs from the maintainers > > - Low popcon > > - Alternatives exist (perf) > > - Depends on legacy libs (604366) > > - Broken wih current kernels (615964) > > > > Unless there're objections/fixes, I'll file a removal bug in a month. > > > > Moritz, > > I have no objection. I become co-maintainer of oprofile a little over > two years ago because one of my clients was using it and needed some > work done on the package. The maintainer was not especially responsive > at that time, so I did what needed to be done. However, my client has > since moved away from using oprofile and when I asked to be removed as > co-maintainer I heard nothing at all. Based on that, I think that the > maintainer is probably MIA, and removal seems like the right thing. OK, reassigning to ftp.debian.org, then. Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org