On Sun, 2024-11-17 at 03:22 +0100, наб wrote: > Hi! > > src:pth has been gone from testing since August. > There are no rdeps and no rbuilddeps, > and only FTBFS bugs since like 2012. > I can hardly imagine a point to Pth at all in 2024 > (or any time after ubiquitous pthread support), > so it reads to me like an easy QA removal. > > But, this seems incongruent with the > inst~15000 + vote~15 popcon > (admittedly, with a peak of 50k, that may just be latent).
I'm not seeing those numbers. Maybe because pth had an ABI bump for
time64 and libpth20 is no longer on the graph.
> What am I missing here? Is there any reason for any one
> to install libpth{20,-dev} at any time any more?
GnuPG once used pth, but switched to npth over a decade ago. As
recently as bullseye, pth still had some significant reverse-
(build-)dependencies:
$ grep-dctrl -FBuild-Depends -sPackage libpth-dev
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bullseye_main_source_Sources
Package: gcc-9
Package: libdap
Package: pianobar
Package: unicon
Package: zhcon
$ grep-dctrl -FDepends -sPackage libpth20
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bullseye_main_binary-amd64_Packages
Package: libgm2-0
Package: genometools-common
Package: libpth-dev
Package: zhcon
but it does seem like it can be dropped now.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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