Bug#945775: python-sponge: should this package be removed.

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 RM: python-sponge -- RoQA; RC buggy, unmaintained, low 
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On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 01:33:25PM +, peter green wrote:
> To me this adds up to a package that is not in a fit state to remain
> in Debian, if noone disagrees I will likely convert this bug to a
> removal request in the not too distant future.

Sure, let's do this already!

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Bug#945775: python-sponge: should this package be removed.

[peter green]

Package: python-sponge
Severity: serious
x-debbugs-cc: debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org

While looking at some python2 removal issues, I came across python sponge. I 
noticed the following about the package.

* Python 2 only.
* Only one maintainer upload (and one NMU) ever.
* Not in stable or testing
* RC buggy for nearly two years with no maintainer response.
* Upstream seems inactive (no commits since 2010, no releases since the one 
that was packaged for Debian in 2009)
* No rdeps.

To me this adds up to a package that is not in a fit state to remain in Debian, 
if noone disagrees I will likely convert this bug to a removal request in the 
not too distant future.