[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#817939: RM: fw4spl -- RoQA; RC buggy, NPOASR, depends on to-be-removed package

[Corentin Desfarges]

Hi,

First, I would like to apologize for the delay of my answer.
I have a lot of work in parallel, and my situation won't change before june
or july.

However, I can confirm that the FW4SPL team doesn't want to leave the
Debian Med project.
I think that the packaging of fw4spl 0.9.2 won't be maintained, and that
the team will work on the packaging of an other version. This version
depends on VTK6 and ITK4.

I transmit your messages to the team, and I keep you updated.

Best regards,

Corentin

2016-04-10 22:34 GMT+02:00 Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>:

> On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 19:13:21 +0100 Andreas Tille wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 07:14:09PM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 08:55:42PM +0200, Esa Peuha wrote:
> > > > Package: ftp.debian.org
> > > >
> > > > fw4spl has had only three upload to Debian: the first two a few
> > > > days apart in March 2015, the third in July.
> > >
> > > the fact that a package had the last maintainer upload so "recently"
> > > tell me that it should be good to wait.  though here the maintainer
> > > seems to have disappeared, indeed.
> > >
> > > Please try to at least CC the maintainer when you file a RoQA for the
> > > removal of the full source package, adding $pkg at pacakges.debian.org to
> > > X-Debbugs-CC is more than enough.
> >
> > I would like to stress the fact that the Debian Med team would like to
> > keep this package inside Debian.  The package and its dependencies are
> > complex.  The intention is to switch to insighttoolkit4 so it will not
> > really block the removal of insighttoolkit (version 3).
> >
> > Thanks for your patience
> >
> >     Andreas.
> >
> > PS: Corentin, it would be good if you would be able to give some rough
> >     estimation of the time needed.
>
> Please reconsider your desire to keep this package inside Debian.
> Keeping the package in unstable in its currently shape is hindering
> various other packages in its dependency chain. See #820632 for example.
>
> This package is keeping libvtk5.8 in unstable, and that keeps the old
> netcdf packages around which hinder testing migration of every new
> package revision since two transitions ago (back in October 2015).
>
> fw4spl is likewise keeping the gdcm (2.4.4-4) packages in unstable,
> which have long since been superseded by the 2.6 series. These also keep
> libvtk5.8 in unstable.
>
> This package should be removed from the Debian archive until a new
> release supporting the current versions of the dependencies can
> reintroduce the package in Debian.
>
> It's sad to see that the other reverse dependencies that are keeping
> libvtk5.8 in Debian unstable are all maintained by the Debian Med Team.
> The VTK situation in Debian has been highly annoying for far too long
> already, we should not have to endure that any longer. We should get rid
> of all the badly maintained packages that are prolonging the pain.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
>
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