[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#822118: RM: fw4spl -- RoQA, unmaintained, RC-buggy, FTBFS, blocks removal of old packages

[Corentin Desfarges]

Hi

As I said to Andreas a few weeks ago, the FW4SPL team is currently
working on a new version of the framework using VTK6, ITK4, and the
new Boost version.
We should be able to remove the dependences to the old versions of
these packages over the next week.

About libpng, I'm not sure to understand. FW4SPL depends on
libpng-dev, and if I refers to the sid packages list, libpng-dev is
related to libpng1.6, not libpng1.2.

Best regards,

Corentin


On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:39:26 +0200 Tobias Frost <tobi at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: fw4spl
> Severity: serious
> Justification: blocks-transitions
>
> Dear maintainer / ftp-masters,
>
> fw4spl is RC buggy with 5 bugs:
>  #797475 fw4spl: does not support parallel build
>  #797481 fw4spl: FTBFS - Doesn't support boost 1.58
>  #809935 fw4spl: FTBFS with libpng16
>  #820632 fw4spl: depends on vtk 5
>  #821957 fw4spl: Depends on insighttoolkit, which is about to be removed. Please port to insighttoolkit4
>
> With the first two filed August 2015; both of them did not receive any response from the maintainer, though
> extra triggered again by Andreas in December.
>
> (The other two bugs do not ahve a response too, but they are only a few days old)
>
> The package blocks the boost, libpng and vtk transitions.
>
> As it is now blocking other packages, I raise the question if it should be
> removed from Debian.
>
> Please response to this bug, if there is no response within a week, I will
> reassign this bug to ftp.debian.org.
>
> Please note, that if decide to keep it, you need to fix your pacakge ASAP.
> The removal of libpng1.2 will NOT wait for root-system, and when removed,
> at least the binary packages must go with it. (Which can lead to src removal)
>
> Thanks for your understanding,
>
> --
> tobi
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
>