On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 06:26:06PM +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > Package: ruby-hpricot > Version: 0.8.6-5 > Severity: serious > Justification: obsolete > > ruby-hpricot is obsolete. > > Upstream has this to say: > > > # Hpricot is over. > > > > After years of lack of a proper maintainer for one of why's jewels, it has > > been > > decided to finally close the book on hpricot. Most users have migrated to > > alternatives > > and there is simply no time or energy to continue with the current codebase. > > > > If you feel that you have the time and wish to take it over, I suggest you > > instead > > think about making the hpricot-like API within nokogiri 100% compatible, > > that is a better > > use of your time. > > > > But if you still feel like "No damnit, I wanna work on hpricot itself > > still!" then fork > > this repo and start work. Send @evanphx or @nicksieger a message if you > > feel like you > > want to take over the gem name with new releases under the hpricot name. > > > > Thanks to \_why for all the fun. We'll never forget it. > > If your package depends on ruby-hpricot, please move away from it > immediately. > > We're not going to have ruby-hpricot in stretch.
ruby-hpricot has now only 2 reverse dependencies: ruby-ronn and ruby-fast-fs. However, the number of packages build-depending on ruby-ronn only grows, and is currently at 54¹ ¹ comitup coquelicot cura-engine dbab elektra foodcritic foremancli gazebo git-extras haproxyctl ignition-math2 ignition-math2 ignition-transport ignition-transport jq maim npm pacapt pgloader python-lua qiime r10k ruby-coveralls ruby-ghi seqprep shapelib slt unburden-home-dir vcsh comitup coquelicot dbab elektra foodcritic foremancli gazebo git-extras haproxyctl ignition-math2 ignition-transport jq maim npm pacapt pgloader r10k ruby-coveralls ruby-ghi seqprep shapelib unburden-home-dir vcsh pgcharts pycsw ruby-hpricot is indeed dead upstream, but so is a lot of software in Debian. Also, being dead upstream does not mean not being useful, or necessarily being broken. So I think we should give up on removing ruby-hpricot until at least one of the following happen: - ruby-ronn gets rewritten to not use ruby-hpricot (unlikely since ronn is dead upstream itself) - something else can replace ruby-ronn and we manage to make reverse (build) dependencies switch to it. - ruby-hpricot gets broken by a future update to Ruby in a way that is unfixable and we have no other option.
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