Your message dated Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:55:09 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1075846: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #1075832,
regarding tk-html3: Completely remove hv3 (and tk-html3), for good reasons
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Source: tk-html3
Severity: serious
Version: 3.0~fossil20110109-9
X-Debbugs-CC: oleb...@debian.org
Dear Debian tk-html3/hv3 package maintainers,
Today I encountered a discussion around package hv3 in Debian. With some brief
investigation, I found some abnormally high popcon values [2] for hv3 and
tk-html3,
which is alarming since this software saw no upstream development since 2011 and
definitely shall not see so many installations. My current thought is that it
may
have been accidentally introduced due to Provides: www-browser somewhere (e.g.,
with
Debian XFCE installer as a default www-browser provider), but I haven't really
dig into
it.
By all means, I believe tk-html3/hv3 shall not linger in Debian archive anymore
in 2024.
Especially since hv3 is a web browser, having an outdated web browser is
especially
problematic. Ubuntu also had the concensus [3] back in 2022.
If you agree, please submit a RM bug against Debian FTP Masters to remove the
source
package. If you find this source package still useful, please consider dropping
the hv3 binary package. At the very very least -- dropping the Provides:
www-browser
from hv3 could help if you don't want to remove anything at all.
I don't see any reverse dependencies or reverse build-dependencies around
tk-html3
(build-deps(1) seems to be reporting false positives), so the removal shall be
harmless and beneficial.
Please let me know if you have any comments. Thanks!
Best Regards,
Boyuan Yang
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1dw2yk8/hv3_web_browser/
[2] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=tk-html3
[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tk-html3/+bug/1982578
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Version: 3.0~fossil20110109-9+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package tk-html3 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1075846
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
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