On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 12:11:37PM +0200, Ilias Tsitsimpis wrote: > [Re-sending with proper To/CC] > > Hi Tom, > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 04:10AM, [email protected] wrote: > > I see that the Yi package has been removed from Testing and "The package > > has not entered testing even though the 5-day delay is over." [0] Does this > > mean that if nothing changes, Yi will be dropped from newer versions of > > Debian? Is anyone working on this? > > Yi has been removed from testing because it is unmaintained (see [1] and > [2]) and doesn't work with newer versions of Haskell libraries available > on Debian testing. If nothing changes, I intend to completely remove it > from Debian. As far as I know, no one from Debian is working on this, > since it needs an upstream maintainer to adopt and fix it first.
Hi Ilias, thanks for the quick reply. I'm sad to see that, that's a real shame. I've reached out to the package maintainer to see if they'd let me take on maintainership duties. If I were able to get Yi fixed upstream, would there be time to stop the removal of Yi from Debian? Thanks, Tom
